Physical Intelligence
Robot ai company · USA
SF-based startup building a general-purpose Vision-Language-Action (VLA) foundation model, π0, that can control any robot platform without per-robot retraining. Focused on the 'brain' layer rather than hardware.
Physical Intelligence is a USA-based robot AI maker, founded in 2024. It is privately held. Product lines include π0 (VLA model), π0.5. It appears in the directory's US Robot Manufacturers (28 companies) list.
- Headquarters
- USA
- Founded
- 2024
- Ownership
- Private
- Robot types
- Robot AI & foundation models
- Total funding
- $1B+ raised
- Latest round
- $600M at $5.6B (Nov 2025); reported raising ~$1B at $11B+ (Mar 2026)
Products
- π0 (VLA model)
- π0.5
Physical Intelligence coverage
- Physical Intelligence San Francisco Lease Signals 2026 Physical AI Scaling — Physical Intelligence subleased 80,000 square feet at 850 Brannan Street in San Francisco from Airbnb in September 2026. The robotics AI firm is expanding its B
- Robotics Week in Review: Aug 21–Aug 28, 2026 — Humanoid robots shattered performance records while AI foundation models and massive datasets accelerated real-world deployment. Funding rounds, record shipment
- Physical Intelligence Eyes $1B Raise at Over $11B Valuation — Physical Intelligence is in early talks for a roughly $1 billion funding round that could value the San Francisco startup above $11 billion. The move nearly dou
- Pi0.7 and Helix: VLA Transformers Advance Zero-Shot Dexterous Manipulation — Physical Intelligence's π₀.7 (April 2026) and Figure AI's Helix (February 2025) represent state-of-the-art Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, achieving open-w
- OpenVLA 7B Advances Zero-Shot VLA Control Over RT-2 — OpenVLA's 7B-parameter Transformer delivers superior zero-shot generalization on LIBERO benchmarks compared to RT-2-X while enabling high-frequency neural feedb
Directory categories
- US Robot Manufacturers — 28 companies
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