Physical AI

Anthropic Previews Model Hardware Standard to Connect AI Agents with Physical Laboratory and Manufacturing Devices

Anthropic has introduced a research preview of the Model Hardware Standard (MHS), an open specification designed to connect autonomous AI agents with physical scientific instruments and manufacturing hardware. The framework establishes a unified interface for models to programmatically monitor, orchestrate, and control physical devices across network boundaries. According to reporting from Reuters and Wired, the standard aims to expand agentic automation beyond software APIs into physical labor

XPeng Robotics Raises 00M at .3B Valuation to Scale IRON Humanoid Production

XPeng announced that its robotics subsidiary has secured over $900 million in private capital at a post-money valuation exceeding $6.3 billion. The transaction marks the largest single-round private financing in China's physical AI and humanoid robotics sector to date. The funding round was led by IDG Capital, with participation from Gaorong Ventures as well as strategic backing from internet conglomerates Tencent and Alibaba. Concurrently, XPeng Chairman and Chief Executive Officer He Xiaopeng

Generalist AI Releases GEN-1.5: One-Shot In-Context Learning for Robotic Manipulation

Robotics research startup Generalist AI announced GEN-1.5, an embodied foundation model capable of learning closed-loop physical manipulation tasks from a single demonstration without gradient updates or fine-tuning. The model adapts through in-context physical prompting, mirroring the few-shot learning dynamics originally identified in autoregressive language models. GEN-1.5 processes multimodal inputs including multi-view video, proprioceptive signals, sensor feeds, and natural language instr

Veeda AI Raises 0M+ Seed Backed by Khosla and Radical for Physical AI World Models

Veeda AI, a Toronto-based foundation model startup established by former Nvidia AI research executive Sanja Fidler, has raised more than $90 million in seed funding. The round was backed by Khosla Ventures and Radical Ventures, marking one of the largest seed financings recorded in Canada. Corporate filings reveal that the company, incorporated in June 2026 as Veeda Innovation, issued 60.6 million seed shares priced at $1 each in late July. Concurrent with the share issuance, Veeda added Radica

Chinese Humanoid Robot Maker Unitree Surges 629% in 04M Shanghai IPO Debut

Chinese humanoid and quadruped robotics manufacturer Unitree Robotics made its public debut on the Shanghai Stock Exchange STAR Market on Wednesday, August 19, 2026, with shares surging 629% in early morning trading. The listing marks the first pure-play embodied artificial intelligence and humanoid robotics IPO on China's mainland A-share exchange. Unitree priced its initial public offering at 150.80 yuan ($22.36) per share, issuing 40.4 million shares to raise approximately $904 million (4.2

LG Partners with Nvidia on 10,000-Square-Meter Robot Data Factory Targeting 100,000 Training Hours

LG Electronics hosted senior Nvidia leadership at its Yangjae R&D Campus in Seoul on August 18, 2026, advancing a joint initiative to build physical AI training pipelines and target 100,000 hours of embodied robotics data by the end of the year. The site review took place five days after LG Group and Nvidia signed a strategic memorandum of understanding at Nvidia headquarters in Santa Clara on August 13. The accelerated timeline reflects LG's effort to convert its industrial manufacturing infra

Gravis Robotics raises $200M to put autonomous control on existing excavators