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ROBOTNESS has published 18 stories about Physical Intelligence since Jan 14, 2026; the latest is from Oct 1, 2026.

Data as of Oct 1, 2026. Included: company announcements, regulator filings and reported rounds; estimates and sample rows are excluded, and undisclosed amounts are never estimated.

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Jan 14, 2026

Latest story

Oct 1, 2026

Stories about Physical Intelligence

Skild AI and Figure top the largest humanoid and embodied-AI funding rounds of 2025-2026, as money moves from robot bodies to robot brains
Date
Oct 1, 2026
Type
Analysis
What is a vision-language-action (VLA) model, and who is building them?
Date
Oct 1, 2026
Type
Industry
Runway turns its video models into robot control with Praxis-1, an open-weight world action model
Date
Sep 30, 2026
Type
Product
General Intuition raises $220 million at a $6.2 billion valuation, betting gameplay clips can teach robots to act
Date
Sep 29, 2026
Type
Funding
Skild AI says it passed $100 million in annual recurring revenue as its S1 model learns tasks from one video
Date
Sep 10, 2026
Type
Business
Google DeepMind ships Gemini Robotics 2, taking its robot models to whole-body humanoid control
Date
Jul 30, 2026
Type
Product
Toyota research spinout Walden Robotics launches with $300 million seed at a $1.1 billion valuation
Date
Jul 15, 2026
Type
Funding
Hugging Face ships LeRobot 0.6 with world models and NVIDIA's GR00T N1.7, deepening an open robotics alliance
Date
Jul 7, 2026
Type
Product
Korea's AI robot alliance reaches 280 members in its first year, with shipyard and refinery humanoids aimed at 2027 and 2028
Date
May 29, 2026
Type
Industry
Sony AI's Ace becomes the first robot to beat elite table tennis players under official rules, Nature paper shows
Date
Apr 22, 2026
Type
Research
Toyota Research Institute's blind trials in Science Robotics find multitask robot models learn new tasks with a fraction of the data
Date
Apr 15, 2026
Type
Research
Skild AI buys Zebra's former Fetch Robotics unit for $20 million, five years after Zebra paid $301 million for it
Date
Apr 15, 2026
Type
M&A
Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 teaches robots to read gauges, lifting accuracy to 93% with Boston Dynamics' Spot as first showcase
Date
Apr 14, 2026
Type
Product
Generalist's GEN-1 robot model reaches 99% success on trained tasks with about an hour of robot data, pretrained without any robot data
Date
Apr 2, 2026
Type
Research
NVIDIA previews GR00T N2, betting robots should predict video before they move
Date
Mar 16, 2026
Type
Product
Rivian spinout Mind Robotics raises $500 million Series A, and Rivian books a $506 million gain on its stake
Date
Mar 11, 2026
Type
Funding
Figure's Helix 02 hands a humanoid's whole body to one neural network, deleting 109,504 lines of control code
Date
Jan 27, 2026
Type
Research
Skild AI raises $1.4 billion in SoftBank-led Series C, lifting its valuation past $14 billion on a bet that one model can run any robot
Date
Jan 14, 2026
Type
Funding

Headline	Date	Type
Skild AI and Figure top the largest humanoid and embodied-AI funding rounds of 2025-2026, as money moves from robot bodies to robot brains	Oct 1, 2026	Analysis
What is a vision-language-action (VLA) model, and who is building them?	Oct 1, 2026	Industry
Runway turns its video models into robot control with Praxis-1, an open-weight world action model	Sep 30, 2026	Product
General Intuition raises $220 million at a $6.2 billion valuation, betting gameplay clips can teach robots to act	Sep 29, 2026	Funding
Skild AI says it passed $100 million in annual recurring revenue as its S1 model learns tasks from one video	Sep 10, 2026	Business
Google DeepMind ships Gemini Robotics 2, taking its robot models to whole-body humanoid control	Jul 30, 2026	Product
Toyota research spinout Walden Robotics launches with $300 million seed at a $1.1 billion valuation	Jul 15, 2026	Funding
Hugging Face ships LeRobot 0.6 with world models and NVIDIA's GR00T N1.7, deepening an open robotics alliance	Jul 7, 2026	Product
Korea's AI robot alliance reaches 280 members in its first year, with shipyard and refinery humanoids aimed at 2027 and 2028	May 29, 2026	Industry
Sony AI's Ace becomes the first robot to beat elite table tennis players under official rules, Nature paper shows	Apr 22, 2026	Research
Toyota Research Institute's blind trials in Science Robotics find multitask robot models learn new tasks with a fraction of the data	Apr 15, 2026	Research
Skild AI buys Zebra's former Fetch Robotics unit for $20 million, five years after Zebra paid $301 million for it	Apr 15, 2026	M&A
Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 teaches robots to read gauges, lifting accuracy to 93% with Boston Dynamics' Spot as first showcase	Apr 14, 2026	Product
Generalist's GEN-1 robot model reaches 99% success on trained tasks with about an hour of robot data, pretrained without any robot data	Apr 2, 2026	Research
NVIDIA previews GR00T N2, betting robots should predict video before they move	Mar 16, 2026	Product
Rivian spinout Mind Robotics raises $500 million Series A, and Rivian books a $506 million gain on its stake	Mar 11, 2026	Funding
Figure's Helix 02 hands a humanoid's whole body to one neural network, deleting 109,504 lines of control code	Jan 27, 2026	Research
Skild AI raises $1.4 billion in SoftBank-led Series C, lifting its valuation past $14 billion on a bet that one model can run any robot	Jan 14, 2026	Funding

Data as of Oct 1, 2026

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