Runway AI Summit: DeepMind, NVIDIA, and Physical Intelligence Convene
Runway hosts its AI Summit on September 30 in San Francisco with leaders from Google DeepMind, NVIDIA, and Physical Intelligence — spotlighting the company's pivot from creative tools into robotics and world models.
Skild AI Teaches Robots New Tasks From a Single Video
Skild AI uses NVIDIA's physical AI stack to teach robots new tasks from a single demonstration video — pointing toward general-purpose robot foundation models that learn without teleoperation datasets.
Puffin-World: Scaling a Unified Multimodal Model with Native 3D World States
New research introduces Puffin-World, a unified multimodal model that works with native 3D world states — advancing AI's ability to understand and generate spatial environments.
FCC Votes to Ban Chinese-Made Humanoid Robots in the United States
The Federal Communications Commission voted unanimously to ban the import and sale of Chinese-manufactured humanoid robots in the United States, citing national security concerns about data collection and physical proximity to humans.
Enigma Raises $71M Seed Round for Interactive AI Robots
Enigma raised a $71 million seed round to build the world's first interactive AI robots. The massive seed investment reflects investor confidence in physical AI and human-robot interaction.
NVIDIA and LG Group Build an AI Factory to Advance Physical AI, Mobility and AI Infrastructure
NVIDIA and LG Group announced an AI factory on the NVIDIA DSX platform spanning robotics, autonomous driving, data centers and GPU cloud services.
NVIDIA and Doosan Group Collaborate to Advance Physical AI and AI Factory Infrastructure
NVIDIA and Doosan are expanding their partnership across robotics, autonomous equipment, AI factory power and advanced PCB materials for next-generation data centers.
Adding MCP Tools to Reachy Mini
Reachy Mini's conversation app can now call tools hosted in public Hugging Face Spaces over MCP, adding web search and weather skills with one command while keeping built-in robot tools local.
Catch Up on the Dialogues Stage at Google I/O 2026
Google's I/O 2026 Dialogues stage brought Sundar Pichai, Demis Hassabis and Google leaders together to debate AI agents, quantum computing, robotics and creativity.
Figure AI Humanoid Robot Narrowly Loses to Human Intern in 10-Hour Package Sorting Showdown
Figure AI livestreamed its humanoid robots sorting packages for nearly a week, culminating in a human-vs-robot competition where intern Aimé Gérard defeated the robots 12,924 to 12,732 packages.