Robot foundation models, VLAs, simulation and learning from data.
The lidar maker launched Kosmo One (8K spatial camera) plus Kosmo World cloud, partnering with Galbot and Dexmal; a Dairy Queen scan cut modeling from ~300 hours to 15 minutes.
NEURA Robotics launched Neuron AI, a 'perception-language-action' model that fuses 3D vision, touch, force, audio, robot state and language with memory, and will demo an 11-minute laundry task on its 4NE1 humanoid.
The Pi API beta lets robot builders upload data, fine-tune π0/π0.5 on Pi's infrastructure and run the result through hosted inference.
On Oct 8, 2026 AWS launched an open-source Physical AI Toolchain that stitches synthetic data, SageMaker training, simulation and edge deploy — with NVIDIA Isaac and Cosmos in the mix — after RoboMaker's 2025 shutdown.
A Fudan/CUHK team's Vela model outputs spline curves with an adaptive time horizon, beating π0.5 on LIBERO-X and EBench and on real egg-cake cooking and potato-shredding tasks.
After launching S1 — a robotics foundation model that copies a single video demo without fine-tuning — Skild showed Physical Self-Play: the same base policy trained against itself in Isaac Sim, then transferred to a humanoid.