John Black, chief technology officer at Brain Corp, discussed scaling robot fleets and building trust in public spaces on The Robot Report Podcast, where he highlighted the company's fleet of over 50,…
Robotics startup Generalist is now valued at $3 billion after raising nearly $200 million in an extension of its Series B round, led by 8VC, according to two people with knowledge of the funding. The …
Chinese AI labs are testing higher prices just as American rivals offer more intelligence for less, according to a newsletter analysis. The piece highlights that robotics startup Generalist raised an …
Generalist, the robot-model developer founded by Pete Florence, Andrew Barry, and Andy Zeng, has sold $198.2 million of a new equity offering less than three months after closing a $400 million financ…
Robotics startups raised a record $16.3 billion across 492 deals in Q1 2026, according to PitchBook data, as Silicon Valley investors pivot from software to physical AI. Business Insider's inaugural l…
Humanoid robots will not scale on factory floors until their costs drop, according to an analysis of the robotics industry. While the technology is mostly ready, the high price tag—one leading develop…
Google launched Gemini Robotics 2, its most advanced vision-language action model, along with Gemini Robotics ER 2 and On-Device 2, to enable humanoid robots to reason and act with whole-body control.…
Generalist's GEN-1 embodied foundation model now supports a broad range of robot end effectors, from five-fingered hands to specialized tools, demonstrating that a single base AI model can learn senso…
IEEE Spectrum's weekly Video Friday roundup features GENE.01, a fully functional humanoid robot developed in six months by Generative Bionics, capable of walking and sensing with a full-body multimoda…
Luma, a video AI startup, announced the Open Physical AI Lab last week, an open-source initiative to develop generalized robots capable of performing human-like tasks. CEO Amit Jain warned that centra…
NVIDIA launched Cosmos 3, an open world foundation model for physical AI built on a mixture-of-transformers architecture that combines vision reasoning, world generation and action prediction in a sin…