Physical AI Daily

Physical AI Daily - October 7, 2026

Boston Dynamics puts former Alexa and Amazon Nova leader Rohit Prasad in charge as Atlas enters its Physical AI commercialization phase. Multiply Labs raises $75 million

Physical AI Daily - October 6, 2026

Doosan Robotics launches into two $69 million Physical AI programs spanning on-device AI cobots, an industrial humanoid and AI-powered welding. TwelveLabs attacks the nex

Physical AI Daily - October 5, 2026

SafeWorld emerges with $12.2 million to build automated safety testing for increasingly probabilistic AI robots. RobCo crosses a $1 billion valuation as its two-armed sel

Physical AI Daily - October 4, 2026

Boston Dynamics reveals a four-finger, 13-DOF Atlas hand designed around an increasingly important humanoid principle: copy the useful parts of human anatomy, then remove

Physical AI Daily - October 3, 2026

RealMan Robotics opens a Beijing facility designed to manufacture something Physical AI desperately needs: experience, targeting 100 million real-world robot training sam

Physical AI Daily - October 2, 2026

Runway enters robotics with Praxis-1, betting that ordinary human video can become the internet-scale training dataset Physical AI has been missing. FieldAI is reportedly

Physical AI Daily - September 2026 Recap

September was the month Physical AI had to show its numbers. Humanoids revealed operating hours, orders and enormous compute budgets; autonomous systems reported miles, m

Physical AI Daily - October 1, 2026

Figure turns the retirement of its F.02 humanoids into one of the year's wildest robotics videos, training them to autonomously jump into molten steel, while raising a bi

Physical AI Daily - September 30, 2026

DYNA Robotics launches a semi-humanoid designed to complete entire work shifts and makes mean time between human interventions the metric that matters. Destro AI raises $

Physical AI Daily - September 29, 2026

AMD makes one of the biggest Physical AI bets yet, agreeing to acquire Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for $8.2 billion and bringing spatial intelligence, world models and robot

Physical AI Daily - September 28, 2026

SiMa.ai raises $150 million at a $1.45 billion valuation to challenge the Physical AI compute stack. Boston Dynamics starts training Atlas inside Hyundai's real Georgia a

Physical AI Daily - September 27, 2026

Tesla is reportedly building hundreds of Optimus robots every week, exposing robot hands, manufacturing yield and AI generalization as major barriers to humanoids at scal

Physical AI Daily - September 26, 2026

Amazon is investing more than $100 million in another U.S. manufacturing facility supporting a robotics network that has already passed one million robots. Agility Roboti

Physical AI Daily - September 25, 2026

Five million industrial robots are now working in factories worldwide, with more than 600,000 new installations in 2025 and China accounting for 59% of them. Skydio intro

Physical AI Daily - September 24, 2026

Aurora puts hard operating numbers behind driverless trucking, including more than 500,000 autonomous miles and customer trucks running above 225,000 annualized miles. BE

Physical AI Daily - September 23, 2026

Qualcomm agrees to acquire PickNik, bringing the MoveIt manipulation ecosystem deeper into its Physical AI stack while promising to keep it open source. Intrinsic open-so

Physical AI Daily - September 22, 2026.

Cognex agrees to acquire RealSense for $500 million, putting a concrete value on the robotic-perception layer underneath Physical AI. Boston Dynamics opens an Atlas train

Physical AI Daily - September 21, 2026

The first industry-wide humanoid count puts 2025 global sales at roughly 7,000 robots, with the IFR saying many were used for research and AI data collection rather than

Physical AI Daily - September 20, 2026

Figure takes Helix 2.5 into 30 unfamiliar homes and reports that human-behavior pretraining lifted full-task success from 9% to 56%. Viabot raises $24 million after its a

Physical AI Daily - September 19, 2026

SoftBank reportedly agrees to acquire Marc Raibert's Robotics and AI Institute from Hyundai, potentially pairing foundational Physical AI research with its planned $5.4 b