Faraday Future is best known as an electric vehicle company, but it is increasingly positioning robotics as a major part of its future, describing itself more broadly as a “physical AI ecosystem company”. The California-based company is now trying to build a US robotics business around technology and products that currently rely substantially on Chinese […]

Neura Robotics and the Technical University of Munich have opened a €17 million robotics research and training center near Munich Airport, while unveiling the latest generation of Neura’s 4NE1 humanoid robot. The TUM RoboGym powered by Neura covers more than 2,300 square meters at LabCampus and combines robotics research, training and industrial applications. Built in […]

Maxinsights has raised $30 million in seed funding to expand its physical AI data platform, which pays people to record everyday activities such as cooking, cleaning and other work to generate training data for robots and AI models. The company was founded by robotics and autonomous-driving veterans, with its wider engineering team including former employees […]

Fort Robotics, a developer of security systems for physical AI, has announced approximately $20 million in new commitments from existing investors, expanding the capital available to support Fort’s next phase of growth. Tiger Global is leading an approximately $10 million financing, with participation from Mark Cuban Companies, that is expected to close this week. Tiger […]

Teradyne Robotics and Sereact have formed a partnership to combine Sereact’s physical AI technology with Universal Robots’ collaborative robots for applications in retail, logistics and manufacturing. The partnership pairs Sereact’s physical AI platform with collaborative industrial robots from Universal Robots to bring intelligent, adaptable automation to real-world operations previously hard to automate, such as the […]

Siemens is collaborating with Nvidia to develop adaptive AI-powered manufacturing capabilities that combine industrial software, Siemens’ Digital Twin technology and Nvidia Cosmos to accelerate production planning, inspection preparation and optimization. The collaboration combines Siemens’ Teamcenter software for product lifecycle management (PLM) and Process Preparation X with Nvidia Cosmos to create an AI-powered workflow for printed […]