Physical AI is moving AI beyond screens into robots, but the field is split on where inference should run: on-device versus in datacenters. Figure runs its Helix model entirely onboard, while Physical…
Humanoid robotics is developing a training-data market, but it is not yet a commodity market, according to an analysis of robot developers and data suppliers. Figure AI introduced its Index physical-d…
Physical Intelligence, a San Francisco-based company developing foundation models and learning algorithms for robots, is hiring an ML Infra Engineer, Modeling to scale and optimize its training system…
Physical Intelligence released S1, a robotic foundation model built for in-context learning that can execute unseen manipulation tasks from a single video prompt without fine-tuning, with horizons up …
Sergey Levine, cofounder of San Francisco-based robotics startup Physical Intelligence, said on The Peterman Pod that the U.S. robotics industry's main weakness is its reliance on China for affordable…
Generalist AI, a San Mateo startup founded in 2024 by former DeepMind and Boston Dynamics alumni, has raised approximately $200 million in fresh funding led by 8VC, bringing its total capital to over …
Physical Intelligence and other robotics researchers argue that future generalist robot 'brains' will run in the cloud rather than on-board, because scaling laws demand models too large for robot GPUs…
Anthropic is in talks to acquire Decart AI for around $6 billion, a deal that would bring Decart's video-simulation and chip-efficiency technology into Anthropic's inference team. While the sourced st…
Physical Intelligence cofounder Chelsea Finn said at Startup School 2026 that robots can already fold laundry, make espresso, and clean kitchens, but the key challenge is making them reliable for long…
Physical Intelligence, the robotics company founded by Chelsea Finn, targets over 90% reliability for robots performing tasks like operating an espresso machine, a bar most robot demos never clear bec…
Chelsea Finn, founder of Physical Intelligence, argues that robotics is nearing a ChatGPT-style breakthrough, but physical AI faces a reliability bar that chatbots never had to clear. Finn's team set …
A developer built a robot named Bubbles controlled by Anthropic's Claude LLM using the model's computer use feature, which processes screenshots and outputs mouse coordinates. The robot, assembled fro…
Waddle Labs launched an early-access API on July 27th that uses language-model agents to write control programs for robots, claiming it can produce a working policy from a natural-language prompt in 2…
Physical AI firms have raised more than $23 billion in venture capital in 2026 so far, according to The Wall Street Journal, with major deals including Waymo's $16 billion Series D, Skild AI's $1.4 bi…
Anthropic held acquisition talks with robotics company Physical Intelligence this spring, according to The Information, though Physical Intelligence CEO Karol Hausman denied the report. Physical Intel…
A weekend rumor that Anthropic is acquiring robotics startup Physical Intelligence spread rapidly on X, even after Physical Intelligence CEO Karol Hausman denied it via a Slack message containing a gi…
Physical AI systems such as robot foundation models (RFMs) pose urgent safety risks that are a blind spot in current AI safety research, according to a new analysis. Unlike disembodied LLMs, RFMs can …
Anthropic is rumored to be acquiring Physical Intelligence, a robot foundation-model developer, according to an uncorroborated claim from Robert Scoble citing an unnamed investor. Physical Intelligenc…
Amazon Robotics is close to signing a lease for 250,000 square feet at 650 Townsend Street in San Francisco's Design District, joining a growing hub of AI and tech firms. The Massachusetts-based divis…
Researchers introduced WGO-Bench, a benchmark for testing robotics subtask annotation performance across 100 egocentric and robot-video episodes with 743 annotated segments. After over 60 experiments,…