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Insider Brief A University of Michigan-led research team has received a $6.2 million grant from Japan’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism to develop AI systems and autonomous robots designed to help shipbuilders detect construction problems before they cause costly delays. According to the university, the project will focus on developing robotic and AI […]

Humanoid robots are crossing the gap from lab demos to real warehouses, kitchens, and factory floors — but most teams discover the hard part isn’t the model. It’s the data behind it. Foundation models can recognize a cup; deploying a humanoid that picks one up, hands it to an elderly person, and adapts when the […]

Insider Brief Nyobolt has raised $60 million in series C funding to expand its ultra-fast charging and high-power battery systems for autonomous robots and AI infrastructure, with valuation topping $1 billion. The funding round was led by Symbotic, with participation from IQ Capital, Latitude, Scania Invest and CBMM. The company said revenue increased fivefold year […]

Insider Brief Researchers at Iowa State University, backed by collaborators at ETH Zürich, have developed a new framework aimed at helping autonomous robots make safer and more transparent decisions when rules conflict in real-world situations. The study, published in IEEE Transactions on Robotics, proposes a system called “rulebooks” that ranks priorities rather than combining them […]

Insider Brief UK construction robotics startup All3 has raised $25 in seed funding led by RTP Global. All3 is developing an integrated construction platform built around autonomous robots that assemble buildings on-site, AI systems that design building components and robotic factories that manufacture those parts before they reach the job site. According to All3, its […]

The gap between language model capabilities and robotic deployment has been narrowing considerably over the past 18 months. A new class of foundation models — purpose-built not for text generation but for physical action — is now running on real hardware across factories, warehouses, and research labs. These systems span deployed robot policies, private-preview VLAs, […] The post Top 10 Physical AI Models Powering Real-World Robots in 2026 appeared first on MarkTechPost.