Emerson and SiMa.ai Deliver Physical AI Intelligence to the Industrial Edge

Insider Brief Logistics startup Stord has raised $250 million in a Series F round at a $3 billion valuation and launched a new physical AI and robotics lab in Atlanta to go up against Amazon’s e-commerce and fulfillment network. The round was led by existing investors and included Strike Capital, Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Franklin […]

Insider Brief Japan’s Mitsubishi Electric has signed a three-year agreement with the Chiba Institute of Technology to jointly develop physical AI technologies and autonomous robotics systems for everything from manufacturing to infrastructure maintenance. The initiative will focus on developing “homegrown” physical AI technologies capable of adapting to real-world environments and performing more autonomous tasks, according […]

At NVIDIA GTC Taipei at COMPUTEX, the world’s developers, researchers and industry leaders are converging to dive into the latest breakthroughs shaping every industry, covering topics spanning AI factories and scaling infrastructure to agentic and physical AI and more.

Day two of TechEx North America has been more of a deeper, critical examination of AI in the enterprise, but with a optimistic bent. The AI and Big Data programme opened with reference to what was termed the “AI graveyard” – that is, AI projects that seem to perform well in pilot, but don’t seem […] The post Enterprise AI roadblocks and roadmaps, security and physical AI: Day two at TechEx appeared first on AI News.

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Hyundai Mobis (KRX 012330) hosted an event in Silicon Valley to identify global partners and expand collaboration in robotics and physical AI. The company plans to broaden open innovation it has pursued in the mobility sector toward new business areas to proactively strengthen its competitiveness. Hyundai Mobis announced that it held […]

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — RLWRLD, a physical AI company developing robotics foundation models for dexterous manipulation, unveiled RLDX-1 at “Dexterity Night in SF,” introducing a model designed to help humanoid robots perform contact-rich tasks such as grasping, pouring and tool use. The company also reported benchmark results across humanoid tabletop, kitchen manipulation and real-world […]

British technology company Humanoid will deploy humanoid robots at factories operated by German industrial supplier Schaeffler, Reuters reported. The two companies’ agreement covers an estimated 1,000 to 2,000 robots in Schaeffler’s global manufacturing sites by 2032, according to a Humanoid spokesperson. The companies have not disclosed the contract value. The first deployment is scheduled between […] The post Physical AI moves closer to factory floors as companies test humanoid robots appeared first on AI News.

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE —Hello Robot, the team behind the Stretch mobile manipulation platform, today announced the release of Stretch 4. Available now for $29,950, Stretch 4 is an open-source robotics platform designed for researchers, developers, and application engineers building the next wave of Physical AI applications for general purpose robotics. Designing Stretch 4 to […]