Robot Foundation Models

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• AGIBOT Dataset Sharpens Robot Decision-Making in Shifting Scenes — AGIBOT released its AGIBOT WORLD 2026 Release 4 physical reasoning dataset on October 22. The open Hugging Face resource trains robots to adapt actions to chang
• Physical Intelligence Pi API Beta Speeds Figure 03 and Tiangong Fine-Tuning — Physical Intelligence opened beta access to its Pi API on October 13, letting developers fine-tune π0 and π0.5 models on managed compute and run inference throu
• Skild AI Closes $1.4B Series C at Over $14B Valuation — Skild AI raised $1.4 billion in a Series C led by SoftBank, reaching a valuation above $14 billion. The funds support scaling its S1 foundation model for teachi
• NVIDIA GR00T N2 Preview at GTC 2026 Advances Physical AI — NVIDIA previewed GR00T N2 at GTC 2026, claiming more than double the success rate on novel tasks compared to prior VLA models. The announcement included Cosmos
• Skild AI S1 Soccer Skills Emerge from 140 Years of Self-Play — Skild AI announced September 23 that its S1 foundation model learned complex humanoid soccer behaviors through self-play in NVIDIA Isaac Sim. The policy, traine
• Figure AI Helix 2.5 Delivers 56% Zero-Shot Success Across 30 Homes — Figure AI released Helix 2.5 on September 17, 2026. The Index-pretrained model enabled Figure 03 humanoids to tidy rooms, fold towels, and make beds in 30 unsee
• Skild AI S1 Drives $100M Revenue Run Rate Ten Months In — Skild AI reached a $100 million annual recurring revenue run rate just ten months after its first commercial deployments of the S1 robotic foundation model. The
• 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
• Skild AI S1 Achieves 10-Minute Tasks from One Video Prompt — Skild AI released its S1 robotics foundation model on August 25, 2026. The model performs unseen long-horizon manipulation tasks up to 10 minutes long after wat
• NVIDIA Isaac GR00T N1.7 VLA Model Ships with Human Video Pretraining — NVIDIA has released the Isaac GR00T N1.7 VLA foundation model under Apache 2.0. The update adds pretraining on 32,000 hours of human video plus 8,000 hours of s
• Skild AI's $1.4B Skild Brain: Omni-Bodied VLA Foundation Model — Skild AI closed a $1.4 billion Series C at over $14 billion valuation, led by SoftBank with NVIDIA's NVentures and Bezos Expeditions participating. The funding