Driven by labor shortages, Japan is pushing physical AI from pilot projects into real-world deployment.
The company turns footage from robots into structured, searchable datasets with a deep learning model.
Nearly five years after graduating into an independent Alphabet company, Intrinsic is moving under Google’s domain.
Zanskar has raised $115 million to find about a dozen geothermal resources that could help power the grid throughout the U.S. West.
The automotive-focused company is looking to expand its Ethernet-based processors to fields like robotics.
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After years of chatbots and image generators, AI is finally leaving the screen. At CES 2026, that shift became impossible to ignore. The annual tech showcase in Las Vegas was dominated by “physical AI” and robotics, from Bos…
Vanessa Larco, partner at Premise and former partner at NEA, thinks 2026 will finally be the year of consumer AI. Larco, who’s been investing in consumer and prosumer for years, thinks we’re about to see a shift in how …
Caterpillar is piloting Cat AI, a system of AI agents in one of its excavators built on Nvidia’s physical AI platform.
Nvidia unveiled a full-stack robotics ecosystem at CES 2026, including foundation models, simulation tools, and hardware. It wants to be the default platform for robotics.