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,…
Japan is racing to leverage its manufacturing expertise to lead in physical AI, systems that enable robots to autonomously support human workers. Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi announced plans to use d…
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…