Physical AI Hits A Data Labeling Wall That Only Cash Can Fix

Physical AI raised $10B+ in 2025, but robots still train on under 5,000 hours of real-world data. Who's funding the race to ...
SiliconANGLE

Physical AI data infrastructure startup Encord lands $60M to accelerate intelligent robot and drone development

Data infrastructure startup Encord has closed on $60 million in new funding to help move robots, drones and other autonomous physical artificial intelligence systems from the lab into real-world ...
Ars Technica

From folding boxes to fixing vacuums, GEN-1 robotics model hits 99% reliability

Robotic machine-learning company Generalist has announced GEN-1, a new physical AI system that it says “crosses into production-level success rates” on “a broad range of physical skills” that used to ...
Forbes

Physical AI’s Real Constraint Isn’t Technology—It’s Capital Discipline

Alex de Vigan, CEO at Nfinite, building large-scale 3D visual datasets to train Physical AI for retail, e-commerce & real-world AI. From the outside, it looks like a classic technology inflection ...
The Robot Report

Why physical AI 2.0 needs a reality check

While vision and language are key parts of physical AI, physical state recovery will enable robots to interact with the world ...
TechCrunch

Physical Intelligence, a hot robotics startup, says its new robot brain can figure out tasks it was never taught

Physical Intelligence, the two-year-old, San Francisco-based robotics startup that has quietly become one of the most closely watched AI companies in the Bay Area, published new research Thursday ...