robotics
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Skild AI intelligence and funding for general-purpose robots
Skild AI reached a $100 million annual revenue run rate using its Skild Brain foundation model to power diverse hardware. The technology…
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Brett Adcock scales Figure AI via BMW deployment and $39B valuation
Figure AI reaches a $39 billion valuation following a massive Series C funding round. The company’s Figure 02 robot successfully completed 1,000…
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Waymo expands US robotaxi fleet and scales Jaguar I-PACE service
Waymo provides 500,000 paid rides every week using a fleet of 3,871 robotaxis across more than 15 US cities. The company is…
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Physical Intelligence Pi API and pi0 model capability
Physical Intelligence utilizes a 3 billion parameter PaliGemma backbone and a 300 million parameter Action Expert to power its pi0 model. The…
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Nvidia Jetson Thor hardware and the shift toward physical AI
Nvidia’s Jetson AGX Thor delivers 2,070 FP4 teraflops of compute to accelerate physical AI development. Early adopters including Amazon Robotics and Boston…
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Robotaxi competition scales in US cities
Waymo delivers over 400,000 weekly rides across 10 US metros while Tesla targets end-of-2026 deliveries for its Cybercab. Tesla reported $28.05 billion…
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Tesla FSD v13 hardware barriers and the sensor safety debate
Tesla’s FSD v13 rollout requires Hardware 4 vehicles to utilize the Cortex GPU cluster for high-resolution video processing. Meanwhile, Waymo has completed…
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The capital and intelligence race in physical AI
Physical Intelligence negotiates an $11 billion valuation as Figure AI deploys its Figure 02 robot to handle 90,000 components for BMW at…
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Waymo’s $45B expansion faces safety and liability hurdles
Waymo faces technical and legal challenges as it scales its robotaxi operations following 202 crashes in Arizona between 2021 and 2024. Software…
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Physical Intelligence vs hardware giants Figure and Tesla
Physical Intelligence uses its pi0 model to achieve 99.9% reliability in robotic tasks. While Figure 02 targets enterprise buyers with a $50,000…
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Figure AI leads with BMW deployment
Figure AI robots completed an 11-month deployment at BMW’s Spartanburg plant, moving 90,000 components to help produce 30,000 X3 vehicles. The transition…
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The economics of Physical Intelligence’s pi0 robot foundation model
Physical Intelligence’s pi0 model reduces new robot task application costs to $10,000, significantly undercutting traditional custom programming. This 3 billion parameter model…