#physical ai

NEURA Robotics announces a Series C round of up to $1.4 billion to accelerate development of cognitive robots, expand the Neuraverse ecosystem, and scale global production of humanoids and mobile robots.

At the Robotics Summit & Expo, Open Robotics plans to make the case that open-source infrastructure is becoming more important as artificial intelligence and robotics converge.

Brain Corp and UC San Diego are expanding a collaboration focused on semantic mapping and contextual intelligence, betting that robots need richer 3D world models to operate reliably in messy real-world settings.

A sponsored piece from Wetour Robotics argues that the next step in physical AI will come from tighter human-machine interfaces, reflecting a broader industry push to treat people as active nodes in robotic systems.

Battery technology company Nyobolt has raised $60 million as it pushes fast-charging, high-durability power systems into autonomous robots and other always-on machines.

1X has launched full-scale production at a new California facility for NEO, its household-oriented humanoid robot, marking a notable step from prototype development toward manufacturing scale.

Ouster says its new Rev8 OS sensor family brings native-color lidar, higher range and resolution, and a stronger platform for autonomy and physical AI systems.

Tutor Intelligence has built a 100-robot ‘Data Factory’ to gather human-guided real-world training data for its vision-language-action model, arguing that scalable robot intelligence requires industrial-grade teaching,

A broadened partnership between Flex and Teradyne Robotics points to a more industrial phase for physical AI, with robots set to be deployed across Flex production facilities worldwide.

An expanded partnership between Flex and Teradyne Robotics aims to scale collaborative robots, autonomous mobile robots, and physical AI across global manufacturing operations.

Sony AI’s Ace robot won three of five matches against elite table tennis players, showing progress in real-time human-robot interaction.

A new report frames Hyundai Motor Group’s strategy around robotics and systems that can act in the real world, highlighting the growing industrial focus on physical AI.

A new discussion in The Robot Report highlights how physical AI and robotics could reshape asset management workflows in industrial settings.

MassRobotics says it will use the 2026 Robotics Summit to spotlight resident startups, physical AI companies, healthcare robotics, women in robotics, and university teams.

A partnership between Thrive Logic and Asylon is positioning AI agents and autonomous security systems as a more active layer in enterprise perimeter protection.

Generalist AI says its new GEN-1 system is a general-purpose model for physical AI and a major step toward its goal of building general intelligence for the physical world.

Russ Tedrake, MIT roboticist and former SVP at Toyota Research Institute, will publicly unveil a stealth AI startup at the Robotics Summit in May with a focus on physical AI for adaptive robots.

At GTC 2026, Nvidia announced major expansions to its physical AI platform, with autonomous vehicles launching in Los Angeles through an Uber partnership, FANUC and ABB industrial robots getting Nvidia brains, and new foundation models targeting humanoid robotics.

The Allen Institute for AI has demonstrated that robots trained in virtual simulations can transfer that learning to real-world manipulation tasks, offering a cheaper and more scalable alternative to expensive manual data collection.

Security flaws found in consumer robots — including hardcoded keys in the Unitree G1 humanoid — expose a fundamental vulnerability in physical AI that could prove far more dangerous in industrial settings.