Caterpillar Extends Mining AI Playbook to Its Whole Business
Caterpillar is applying lessons from more than a decade of autonomous mining trucks to a company-wide AI rollout, backed by a $100 million plan to retrain 118,000 workers.
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Every AI News story tagged with both Artificial Intelligence and Physical AI — the two topics side by side, updated as new articles publish.
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XPeng's Robotics Arm Raises $900M at Record $6.3B Valuation
XPeng's robotics unit raised over $900 million from IDG Capital, Tencent and Alibaba at a $6.3 billion valuation, the largest single-round raise yet in China's humanoid robot industry.
Read more →Robot-Safety Startup FORT Robotics to List on Nasdaq for $556M
FORT Robotics, whose safety systems certify robots for Google DeepMind and Zoox, is going public through a SPAC merger valuing it at $556.6 million.
Read more →AgiBot Overtakes Unitree as World's Top Humanoid Robot Vendor
Chinese robotics maker AgiBot shipped more humanoid robots than rival Unitree in the first half of 2026, a new market report found, as both firms race toward competing IPOs.
Read more →Reimagine Robotics Launches Robots Trained by Demonstration
Reimagine Robotics, founded by former Google DeepMind Applied Robotics leaders, emerged from stealth with a platform that lets factory workers train robots by demonstration instead of code.
Read more →Travis Kalanick's Atoms Raises $1.7B for Physical AI Robots
Travis Kalanick's robotics venture Atoms raised $1.7 billion in a round led by Andreessen Horowitz, with Uber — the company that ousted him as CEO in 2017 — joining as an investor.
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What Is a Vision-Language-Action (VLA) Model — and Why It Matters
A vision-language-action (VLA) model turns a camera feed and a plain instruction directly into a robot's movements, replacing separate perception and control systems with one model.
Read more →AMD Unveils Kria AI Platform to Challenge Nvidia in Robotics
AMD launched a Kria AI system-on-module and robotics developer platform for physical AI, claiming faster real-time control than Nvidia's Jetson Thor chips.
Read more →UK Robotics Startup Humanoid Raises $152M, Hits $1.35B Valuation
London-based Humanoid raised $152 million at a $1.35 billion valuation, becoming Europe's first pure-play humanoid robotics unicorn as Fortune 500 clients scale up deployments.
Read more →NVIDIA Enlists Japan's Robotics Giants for Physical AI Push
NVIDIA said more than 20 Japanese manufacturers and robotics firms, including FANUC, Sony and SoftBank, are building on its Cosmos world-model platform for real-world AI.
Read more →What Is Physical AI — and How Does It Differ From a Chatbot?
Physical AI is artificial intelligence built to sense, reason about, and act in the real world — powering robots, self-driving cars, and smart sensors, not just chat.
Read more →Syntiant Files for Nasdaq IPO to Scale 'Physical AI' Chips
Intel- and Microsoft-backed chipmaker Syntiant filed to list on Nasdaq under ticker SYTN, betting on demand for its low-power, on-device 'Physical AI' processors.
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