#physical ai

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.

MassRobotics, NVIDIA, and AWS have named the nine Physical AI Fellowship startups in their second cohort, providing mentorship, cloud computing resources, and industry connections to early-stage companies building AI-powered physical systems.

After decades of conventional automation, manufacturers are adopting physical AI—systems that perceive, reason, and act in physical environments—as the next leap in factory productivity, driven by labor constraints and rising operational complexity.

From factory floors to warehouses, physical AI is emerging as the next frontier as nations and corporations compete to build intelligent robots.

Alphabet subsidiary Intrinsic, which spun out in 2021 to develop AI-powered robotics software, is being folded back into Google. The move signals Google's growing ambition in 'physical AI' — systems that can perceive, reason about, and manipulate the real world.