Niantic Spatial and Spexi Partner to Turn Drone Imagery Into Intelligence for Physical AI

Insider Brief Firebird, the AI infrastructure company building large-scale GPU capacity in Armenia, has launched Firebird Labs, a new venture platform focused on incubating and funding startups in robotics, physical AI, aerospace and life sciences. As part of the initiative, Firebird is partnering with Armenia’s Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sport and OpenAI to […]

For the past decade, artificial intelligence mostly lived on a screen. It answered questions, finished sentences, sorted images, and recommended the next thing to watch. That era is ending. The next wave of AI has hands, wheels, rotors, and sensors — and it’s being asked to operate reliably in warehouses, hospitals, farms, and city streets. […]

Insider Brief Brain Corp is expanding its research collaboration with the University of California San Diego to develop technologies aimed at helping autonomous robots better understand and navigate complex real-world environments. “Robotics has reached a point where the challenge is no longer simply movement or perception, but understanding,” Brain Corp CTO John Black said in […]

ST. LOUIS, May 26, 2026 — Global automation leader Emerson is collaborating with SiMa.ai a leader in Physical AI, to deliver advanced AI capabilities for real-time data analysis on Emerson’s […] The post Emerson and SiMa.ai Deliver Physical AI Intelligence to the Industrial Edge appeared first on AIwire.

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 […]

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