San Diego Charter School Embraces Physical AI With Humanoid Robots

Altus Schools says the robots will help students learn. Critics are asking why an AI teaching experiment needed to look human.

When Jaiveer Singh talks about robots, he doesn’t begin with spectacle. He begins with infrastructure: the boards inside machines, the software that lets developers see through a robot’s cameras and the engineering required before a robot can leave a demo floor to do something useful. As a robotics software engineer who leads the team behind […]

South Korea targets physical AI lead and commercial humanoid robots by 2028.

Insider Brief Swiss startup Flexion Robotics has introduced Reflect v1.0, a robotics intelligence platform it says is designed to help humanoid robots complete longer, multi-step jobs without human operation. According to the company, the platform was demonstrated through a workplace delivery task where a humanoid robot was given the instruction, “A parcel with snacks has […]

Agibot announced it has made its 15,000th robot as the Chinese embodied AI company pushes to scale manufacturing and deployment of it humanoid robots. “The rollout of our 15,000th robot is not only an important milestone in Agibot’s mass production and engineering delivery capabilities, but also a reflection of the broader industry’s move toward scaled […]

Insider Brief Striding AI announced it is developing a robotic foundation system designed to help robots learn from real-world experience and perform tasks across industries ranging from retail to logistics, as the Beijing-based company looks to speed up deployment of physical AI. The company said its platform combines foundation AI models with robotic perception, control […]

Flexion Robotics, a startup founded by ex-Nvidia engineers, has a clever way of training robots to do useful work.

Factory-floor applications of the technology could significantly enhance rich-world economies