Coverage from the Actuate conference describes physical AI as being in its "GPT-2 era," constrained by a shortage of diverse, high-quality robot training data and unreliable end-to-end manipulation. Unitree's post-IPO va...
General Intuition, a startup building a foundation model that trains generalized agents to navigate space and time, is in talks to raise at a $6 billion pre-money valuation from Valor Equity Partners, Point72 Ventures, S...
Encord, a data-tooling company, is manufacturing physical training data for robotics firms at a San Leandro warehouse, using egocentric camera headsets, leader-follower robotic arm rigs, and dense task annotation. In a t...
Robotics startup General Intuition has raised $320 million to develop a foundation model for physical AI, aiming to bring a "ChatGPT moment" to robotics. By training on video game data, the company has created a spatial-...
US defense tech company Forterra has deployed over 100 autonomous ground vehicles in Ukraine to assist with logistics, cargo transport, and casualty evacuation. While currently relying heavily on teleoperation due to tac...
Robotic startup Proception has settled a trade secret lawsuit with Tesla and raised $11 million in seed funding to advance its high-dexterity robotic hand technology. The company utilizes a sensor-laden glove to capture...
Startup General Intuition has raised $320 million at a $2.3 billion valuation to develop a generalized agentic model trained on human gameplay data. By utilizing button-press actions from video clips, the company’s AI mo...
AI startup Odyssey has secured $310 million in Series B funding, valuing the company at $1.45 billion, to advance its 'world models' that simulate the physical world. Founded by self-driving industry veterans, Odyssey ai...
Startup XDOF has emerged from stealth with $70 million in funding to build data pipelines, collection tools, and annotation systems for physical AI. By partnering with UC Berkeley to release the massive 'ABC' robotics da...
Barcelona-based startup Theker has raised $85 million in Europe's largest-ever robotics Series A to build generalist, reconfigurable factory robots. Unlike traditional single-task machines or fixed humanoid forms, Theker...
