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87 stories taggedphysical AI.
OpenAI dominated our week while agents coverage cooled
AI2Day ran 38 stories between 5 and 11 October 2026, down from 42 the week before. OpenAI took 15 of them. The agents beat that filled the previous week shrank by six.
Humanoid Robots Are Getting Smarter. They Are Not Ready for Your Home Yet.
Nvidia's Cosmos 3 gives robot builders a powerful new tool. But researchers warn that the gap between a robot handing out popcorn and one folding your laundry is still vast.
The AI Running Your Power Grid Cannot Afford to Guess Wrong
AVEVA's chief technologist explains why the next wave of industrial AI needs human guardrails before autonomy, and why that order matters more than the technology itself.
The Robot Dog That Works the Night Shift
More than $23 billion flowed into physical AI and robotics in 2026 alone. A growing slice is going toward security robots that can spot threats before a human guard ever gets the call.
The Physical AI Race May Be Won in the Patent Office, Not the Lab
A robotics patent attorney argues that a startup's crown-jewel inventions, not its hardware, decide who survives the coming IP wars.
ANYbotics Shift Turns a Robot's 2 a.m. Gas Alert Into a Work Order Before Dawn
A new platform connects walking industrial robots to SAP, GE Vernova, and dozens of other enterprise tools, so a fault spotted overnight becomes a repair ticket before the morning shift arrives.
Asimov's Robot Laws Are Not Enough. Here Is What Researchers Think We Actually Need.
Anthropic's CEO has called for slowing AI development, more than 2,500 economists and technologists have signed an open letter demanding action, and a U.S. senator has proposed sweeping legislation. The fiction that guided the field for 80 years is no longer adequate.
How Nvidia's Warp Lets You Run 2,048 Robot Simulations at Once
A new Hugging Face tutorial shows how to move a standard robot simulation from a single CPU to thousands of parallel GPU environments, cutting the time it takes to teach robots physical skills.
Arm Pulls 80-Plus Companies Into One Robotics Ecosystem and Proposes a Common Rating Scale
Arm's Total Design for Physical AI program and a six-level Robotics Capability Framework aim to fix the fragmentation that has slowed robot deployment for years.
Universal Robots Gen 7 Wants to Put AI on the Factory Floor Without the Headache
A smaller controller, a lighter teaching device, and three new robot arms aim to make AI deployment feel like a normal Tuesday, not a research project.
Construction robots are helping build homes faster, but humanoid builders are still science fiction
A labour shortage and a housing gap of 1.2 million homes are pushing the building industry toward automation. The real gains right now come not from robots swinging hammers, but from machines that prevent costly mistakes and factories that build homes indoors.
Agility's Digit 5 Has Human-Style Legs, Nine-Minute Charging and a Safety Squat
The updated humanoid can lift 50 pounds, work 20 hours a day, and sit on the floor to switch itself off when a person walks close, all lessons learned from three years on real factory floors.
Three people who've done it will tell you how to get a robot past the prototype stage
Adrian Macneil, John Mackey and Boris Sofman bring hard-won scaling lessons to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Register before 25 September to save up to $200.
Robots are still waiting for their ChatGPT moment. Here is why.
Nvidia's Les Karpas says the biggest thing holding back general-purpose robots is not the hardware. It is data. And solving that problem is far harder than it sounds.
How Researchers Are Tricking Robots Into Doing the Wrong Thing
New research shows that AI-powered robots can be manipulated through their cameras, training data, or wireless systems, and the machines may never flag anything as wrong.