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Physical AI and embodied intelligence: robot foundation models, vision-language-action models, simulation, training data and the companies building robot brains.

Physical AI archive

General Robotics says GRID onboards robots 360x faster and wrote 80% of its own code

General Robotics says GRID onboards robots 360x faster and wrote 80% of its own code

The NVIDIA-backed startup says it's cracked the thing every robot company needs: fast, transferable skills, and incredibly quick physical AI training.
Sep 9, 2026
Hello OpenAI, Europe gets 2 humanoid robot production lines, and everyone needs a humanoid

Hello OpenAI, Europe gets 2 humanoid robot production lines, and everyone needs a humanoid

Today in Humanoid Daily ... OpenAI is building humanoids as CEO Sam Altman confirmed it himself, humanoids get warehouse jobs, Europe starts humanoid mass production in several locations, World Labs gives robots a world model, Zeroth opens up humanoid development, and we get predictions that humanoids could dwarf the car market and possibly even number one billion in a decade.

Sep 3, 2026
Sam Altman: OpenAI will 'definitely' build a humanoid ... and he thinks the body is the easy part

Sam Altman: OpenAI will 'definitely' build a humanoid ... and he thinks the body is the easy part

OpenAI's CEO confirmed he's making a humanoid. Then he made a pretty big claim about what's the hardest part. The company's own job listings, however, say something a bit different.
Sep 3, 2026
The robot economy is getting real: NVIDIA, China, LG, and robots building houses

The robot economy is getting real: NVIDIA, China, LG, and robots building houses

Today in Humanoid Daily ... robot hardware is getting cheaper, China's pouring EVEN MORE money into humanoid robots, LG is building out its physical AI solutions, robots are starting to build houses, and NVIDIA might just be the one company making the most money from robotics right now.
Sep 1, 2026
NVIDIA's robot business is already worth $10 billion/year, and China is its best customer

NVIDIA's robot business is already worth $10 billion/year, and China is its best customer

NVIDIA's physical AI business is already generating roughly $10 billion a year, more than the entire humanoid robot industry combined, with Jensen Huang pointing to a tenfold path over the next decade. A meaningful share of that comes from China, which built about 90% of the world's humanoids last year. But Beijing is racing to build a domestic stack ...

Sep 1, 2026