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Former OpenAI and Google Brain Researchers Launch AI-Powered Materials Science Startup with $300M

Periodic Labs, founded by OpenAI's Liam Fedus and Google Brain's Ekin Dogus Cubuk, emerged from stealth with a $300 million seed round to automate materials science discovery using AI. The startup combines robotic synthe...

[Robotics] [superconductors] [materials science] [automated discovery] [LLM reasoning]
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Coco Robotics Establishes Physical AI Research Lab with UCLA Professor to Leverage Five Years of Delivery Robot Data

Coco Robotics, a last-mile delivery robot startup, has appointed UCLA professor Bolei Zhou as chief AI scientist to lead a new physical AI research lab. The lab will leverage millions of miles of data collected by Coco's...

[Robotics] [Physical AI] [computer vision] [autonomous navigation] [last-mile delivery]
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Alibaba Partners with Nvidia to Integrate Physical AI Development Tools into Cloud Platform

Alibaba has announced a partnership with Nvidia to integrate Physical AI software stack into its cloud platform, enabling development of robotics, autonomous vehicles, and smart spaces through synthetic data generation....

[Nvidia] [Alibaba] [Robotics] [Physical AI] [Autonomous Vehicles] [qwen 3-max]
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Robotics Startup Investment Surges to $6 Billion as Industry Matures Beyond AI Hype

Venture investors poured $6 billion into robotics startups in the first seven months of 2025, making it one of the few non-AI categories experiencing funding growth. Industry veterans argue this surge stems from a decade...

[Venture Capital] [Robotics] [Industrial Automation] [Manufacturing] [hardware costs]
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FieldAI Secures $405M to Develop Physics-Based Universal Robot Brains for Cross-Platform Embodied AI

FieldAI raised $405 million to develop "foundational embodied AI models" - universal robot brains that can work across different robot types from humanoids to self-driving cars. The company's approach integrates physics...

[Robotics] [Foundational Models] [Embodied AI] [physics-based AI] [robot safety]
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Nvidia Launches Cosmos World Models and Infrastructure for Physical AI and Robotics Development

Nvidia unveiled new Cosmos world models including Cosmos Reason, a 7-billion-parameter vision language model designed for physical AI applications and robotics. The company also introduced neural reconstruction libraries...

[Nvidia] [Robotics] [Physical AI] [world models] [cosmos reason]
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AI Video Companies Luma and Runway Target Robotics and Autonomous Vehicles for Revenue Expansion

AI video-generating startups Luma and Runway are exploring partnerships with robotics and self-driving car companies as potential new revenue streams beyond their current focus on movie studios. Luma is particularly posi...

[Robotics] [Video Generation] [Autonomous Vehicles] [3D world models] [luma] [runway]
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