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Uber Reunites With Ousted Founder Travis Kalanick in a Massive $1.7B Robotics Bet
In a stunning strategic reunion, Uber has backed its former CEO Travis Kalanick’s new robotics startup, Atoms. The massive $1.7 billion funding round, led by a16z, signals a historic capital shift toward physical AI.
What the rumored Anthropic Physical Intelligence acquisition means for the physical AI race
A weekend rumor linking Anthropic to robotics startup Physical Intelligence points to a massive strategic pivot. Here is why the Claude-maker is suddenly racing to merge digital brains with physical bodies.
How NVIDIA and Hugging Face Are Democratizing Robotics Training Through Open-Source Physical AI Simulation
NVIDIA and Hugging Face have teamed up to address the biggest bottleneck in robotics: data. By standardizing physical AI simulation, they are making high-fidelity virtual environments accessible to every developer.
How Hugging Face Grabette Solves the Embodied AI Data Bottleneck With Open Hardware
Hugging Face has launched Grabette, an open-source hardware and software system designed to record robot-manipulation data. By expanding its LeRobot ecosystem, the AI pioneer aims to democratize physical AI training and break the data bottleneck holding back advanced robotics.
How NVIDIA is translating its data-center monopoly into physical AI dominance at the edge.
NVIDIA is moving to monopolize the physical AI ecosystem with its new Jetson Thor T3000 and T2000 modules. By packing Blackwell-class compute into a tight power envelope, the silicon giant is giving humanoid robots the onboard brains they need to run foundation models locally.
Neura Robotics Scores $1.2B for AI Humanoid Robot Army
German startup Neura Robotics raises $1.2B from Amazon, Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim, and other major investors at $4.62B valuation. The massive funding round positions the humanoid robotics company as a leader in the global race for industrial AI automation.
LeCun Raises $1B Seed to Prove LLMs Are a Dead End
Yann LeCun's AMI Labs just closed a $1.03 billion seed round at a $3.5 billion valuation — Europe's largest ever. The Turing Award winner is betting that world models will make today's LLMs obsolete, and Nvidia, Bezos, Eric Schmidt, and Samsung agree.
Wayve Raises $1.2B at $8.6B Valuation for AV AI
British self-driving startup Wayve raises $1.2 billion in a Series D led by Eclipse, Balderton, and SoftBank Vision Fund 2, hitting an $8.6 billion valuation. With Uber robotaxi trials planned for London in 2026 and backing from Microsoft, Nvidia, and three major automakers, it's one of the largest UK AI rounds ever.
Caterpillar Taps Nvidia to Build AI Agents for Autonomous Construction Equipment
Caterpillar is piloting 'Cat AI,' a system of AI agents running on Nvidia's physical AI platform, in its excavators. This marks one of the first major industrial deployments of Nvidia's push beyond data centers—and signals a coming wave of autonomous heavy machinery.