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Kawasaki Heavy Industries has launched a Physical AI development center in San Jose, partnering with Nvidia, Microsoft, Analog Devices, and Fujitsu to build autonomous healthcare systems. The facility will integrate AI with Kawasaki's existing surgical and service robots, starting with a "hospital o...

Gecko Robotics is testing Ouster's Rev8 digital lidar sensor to enhance its Cantilever platform for industrial infrastructure inspection. The Rev8's ability to output colorized 3D point clouds alongside infrared and intensity data enables Gecko's AI to more reliably detect structural anomalies that ...

Brain Corp and UC San Diego have expanded their research partnership to develop contextual 3D semantic mapping technology for autonomous robots in commercial and industrial settings. The collaboration addresses a critical gap: making next-generation AI-powered robots reliable and deployable in dynam...

FANUC announced a strategic partnership with Google to integrate advanced AI capabilities across its industrial robot product line, targeting more adaptive automation in manufacturing. The company has already shipped over 1,000 robots for physical AI applications since unveiling the system at IREX T...

Major tech companies including Hugging Face, Nvidia, and Alibaba have released open-source AI models and tools specifically for robotics, making it easier to build intelligent physical systems without specialized expertise. Hugging Face's LeRobot platform now hosts over 58,000 robotics datasets — th...

Quartermaster has closed a $43M Series A to scale its SmartMast sensor package — a weather-hardened mast-mounted unit combining cameras, radios, and analytics software that turns ships into a continuous sensing network. The system addresses critical gaps in maritime situational awareness, where the ...

Physical Intelligence has released π0.7, a vision-language-action model that performs dexterous manipulation tasks across different robot platforms and can combine learned skills to solve new problems. The model uses multimodal prompts—language, visual subgoals, and metadata—to integrate diverse tra...

Physical Intelligence has developed RL tokens (RLT), a reinforcement learning method that allows vision-language-action models to refine precise manipulation skills using just 15 minutes of real-world robot experience. The technique adds a compressed "RL token" output to the base model, enabling a l...

NVIDIA has released the Physical AI Data Factory Blueprint, an open reference architecture that automates training data generation, augmentation, and evaluation for robotics, autonomous vehicles, and vision AI agents. The blueprint addresses a core bottleneck in Physical AI development: generating m...

Physical Intelligence has closed a $600M Series B led by Alphabet's CapitalG, bringing total funding to $1.1B at a $5.6B valuation. The San Francisco startup's latest VLA model doubles robot throughput on manipulation tasks using a reinforcement learning approach that combines demonstrations, correc...

FieldAI closed $405M across multiple rounds to develop "foundational embodied AI models" — general-purpose robot brains designed to work across humanoids, quadrupeds, and autonomous vehicles. The company's approach embeds physics into AI models to help robots manage risk and adapt to new environment...

Genesis AI emerged from stealth with a $105M seed round from Eclipse and Khosla Ventures to develop a foundation model for robotics trained on synthetic data generated by a proprietary physics engine. The approach aims to sidestep the cost and latency of collecting real-world training data, a key bo...

Ouster has released Rev8, the first LiDAR sensor family that captures color natively in every 3D data point, removing the need for separate camera fusion or post-processing. The flagship OS1 Max offers 500-meter range, 256 channels, and operates across extreme lighting conditions—from near-darkness ...