Physical AI Operators’ second event filled the Robotics Center garage in San Francisco, where AgiBot, Astera Robotics and Veesion named data as the bottleneck for physical AI.
Kinetic Blocks says nine in ten beta registrations are sellers, prompting a looser interests format for early robot training data searches on its marketplace.
ETH Zurich researchers presented a musculoskeletal robotic hand using remote Peano-HASEL actuators and a compliant tendon driven design.
A 3D asset allegedly extracted from Tesla’s Android app offers an unconfirmed look at Optimus Gen 3, but not proof of finished hardware or production.
A LinkedIn post says Xsens will preview full body humanoid teleoperation with NVIDIA Isaac Teleop and Robo Inc. at IROS 2026.
Adam Jonas argues that edge inference, manufacturing capacity and regulation will shape a physical AI economy spanning many robot form factors.
XPENG’s IRON humanoid tracks speakers, switches among three languages and recalls identities in a controlled studio demonstration of planned store work.
A LinkedIn roundup says Digit 5 can work for 20 hours and lists production plans from UBTECH and ugo, but provides limited supporting evidence.
A LinkedIn post says PrimeBOT plans output of 10,000 humanoid robots a month, but gives no factory location, timetable, or production evidence.
Reward AI says OM-1 learns robot tasks from human demonstrations captured by a hand worn device, but no paper, open model or benchmark data is public.
