Researcher's Guide to Physical AI
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AI Models Fail 63 of 84 Robot Tasks, Waymo Borrows $5B
October 10, 2026 · 12 minFive frontier AI models were put in charge of robots across 84 tasks, and 63 went unsolved by all of them; one announced its job was done and then kept raising and lowering an empty arm. Marc Raibert and Agility's Jonathan Hurst say…
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Atlas Loses Its Pinky, Only One Humanoid in Eight Walks
October 3, 2026 · 13 minBoston Dynamics taped its engineers' pinkies to their ring fingers for a day, then shipped Atlas a four-fingered hand built for manufacturing, repair and simulation, and a BTIG count says only 13% of this year's humanoids walk on two legs…
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Black Forest Labs Beat NVIDIA, Figure's Rival Did the Maths
September 26, 2026 · 14 minBlack Forest Labs, the company behind the FLUX image models, put out the best open robot policy going and then paid an outside firm to run it blind on an arm it doesn't own: 28 of 30, against 13 for pi-0.5. Figure's home-robot success rate…
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Amodei Says Slow Down, Huang Says No, Figure Leaves the Lab
September 19, 2026 · 12 minDario Amodei asked the frontier labs to pace themselves, Sam Altman said OpenAI would match one commitment, and two days later Jensen Huang told the President on speakerphone "we're not going to let that happen, sir." The essay never…
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Agility $1.8M of Robots, Skild $100M ARR, Depth for Free
September 12, 2026 · 12 minA humanoid maker's books went public for the first time under securities law, and they show $1.8 million of robot sales against a $2.5 billion merger valuation, while the company selling robot software rather than robots reported…
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NVIDIA Bought Hugging Face and Never Said Robots
September 5, 2026 · 16 minNVIDIA agreed to buy Hugging Face for just under thirteen billion dollars, which puts the shelf almost every open robot model sits on inside the company that sells the chips those models train on. Its own announcement of the deal never…
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Anthropic Wants to Sit Between AI and Machines
August 29, 2026 · 16 minAnthropic previewed a driver specification that would let any model discover and operate a microscope, a laser or a robot arm, and in the limitations section of the same announcement it says the model can't reliably predict that shaking a…
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Anthropic Aims for a Record IPO, Unitree Up 460%
August 22, 2026 · 18 minAnthropic has told its bankers it expects the largest first-time share sale in history, and it is reportedly still trying to buy a world-model company for six billion dollars while it does. A private lab can fund a five-year bet on…
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Your Simulator Has Never Seen a Robot Fail
August 15, 2026 · 16 minAbout twenty researchers spent a paper writing down, formally, the rule that when you tell a learned simulator to move the robot's arm, the arm should move. Six of the open-source world models the field builds on don't reliably obey, and a…
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Looks Like Physics, Isn't Physics, and World Action Models
August 8, 2026 · 11 minTwo teams tested, independently and in the same week, whether the video-generating world models robotics is betting on actually understand physics. They get the shape of a falling mug right and the numbers underneath it wrong, which…