Physical AI Daily

Physical AI Daily - September 16, 2026

Planted raises $31.8 million to scale a robotic solar-construction fleet that's already fully committed through 2027, with its next-generation Sage robot arriving later t

Physical AI Daily - September 15, 2026

Agility Robotics unveils Digit 5 after more than 65,000 hours of real-world experience with the prior Digit fleet, adding a 50-pound payload, nine-minute charging and a s

Physical AI Daily - September 14, 2026

Boston Dynamics' path to an IPO appears to be moving further out as Reuters reveals nearly $1.3 billion in cumulative losses since 2021 and Atlas still waits for scaled f

Physical AI Daily - September 13, 2026

Hyundai puts its autonomous-driving Data Flywheel into operation and lays out a 2028-2029 roadmap spanning NVIDIA technology and its own Atria AI. Mecka AI is reportedly

Physical AI Daily - September 12, 2026

Greenfield Robotics says 82 agricultural robots are already working for paying customers across 16 states, while the same platform expands from weed cutting into feeding,

Physical AI Daily - September 11, 2026

Maven Robotics emerges from stealth with $100 million and a goal of reaching one million autonomous industrial operating hours. FANUC and Google introduce an AI system th

Physical AI Daily - September 10, 2026

General Robotics says its AI can cut robot onboarding from a month to as little as two hours, putting a concrete metric on one of robotics' biggest hidden costs: deployme

Physical AI Daily - September 9, 2026

Hai Robotics plans a single fulfillment system with more than 1,500 rack-climbing robots and over 24,000 totes per hour of designed throughput. NEURA and SECO want factor

Physical AI Daily - September 8, 2026

XPENG commissions a humanoid production line with more than 80% of core manufacturing processes automated, Arm brings 80+ companies together and proposes a common capabil

Physical AI Daily - September 7, 2026

Agility Robotics' new public filing gives us the first real financial look inside a U.S. humanoid company: $1.8 million in 2025 sales against a $2.5 billion proposed equi

Physical AI Daily - September 6, 2026

Travis Kalanick's Atoms is reportedly developing robotaxi technology after building its Physical AI strategy around specialized industrial autonomy. Nissan's heavy-duty f

Physical AI Daily - September 5, 2026

Pudu arrives at IFA with more than 130,000 robots already shipped and a strategy it calls “One Brain, Multiple Embodiments.” iRobot takes specialization even further with

Physical AI Daily - September 4, 2026

Figure commits $3.5 billion to humanoid AI compute with a path to 100,000 NVIDIA GPUs. Tesla puts Cybercab into commercial service and immediately faces a federal safety

Physical AI Daily - September 3, 2026

PlusAI makes a second attempt at the public markets with an $800 million valuation and a stronger commercial autonomy story. Lyte raises $165 million to build the percept

Physical AI Daily - September 2, 2026

Caterpillar partners with FieldAI to bring robot foundation models, digital twins and autonomy into construction and heavy industry. Norbert Health raises $14 million aft

Physical AI Daily - August 2026 Recap

August was the month Physical AI started looking less like a collection of impressive robots and more like an operating industry. From Unitree and XPENG humanoids to Grav

Physical AI Daily - August 31, 2026

Carbon Robotics opens its autonomy platform to third-party farm equipment, starting with Kubota-owned Great Plains. ASUS reportedly reorganizes around a dedicated Physica

Physical AI Daily - August 30, 2026

AgiBot starts serial humanoid production in Serbia as the humanoid race moves from demonstrations toward manufacturing infrastructure. Sanctuary AI takes a different rout

Physical AI Daily - August 29, 2026

NVIDIA has reportedly agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, potentially combining NVIDIA's GPUs, Isaac, GR00T, Cosmos and Jetson with Hugging Face's model hub

Physical AI Daily - August 28, 2026

Skild AI's S1 attempts unseen, long-horizon manipulation tasks after seeing just one video demonstration, potentially turning robot training into something much closer to