Physical Intelligence
Physical Intelligence and its cross-embodiment foundation models aimed at running many robot bodies from one policy.
Coverage (8 articles)
- Robotics Week in Review: Oct 9–Oct 16, 2026 — AI training breakthroughs and record funding dominated robotics this week, as models like Gemini 4 Argon slashed humanoid learning times while NVIDIA and others
- NVIDIA Eyes $1B Figure AI Stake at $38B Valuation — NVIDIA is in talks to invest another $1 billion in Figure AI at a roughly $38 billion pre-money valuation. The move would expand NVIDIA's existing stake and sup
- 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
- 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