Robotic machine-learning company Generalist has announced GEN-1, a new physical AI system that it says “crosses into production-level success rates” on “a broad range of physical skills” that used to ...

Emerging startup Physical Intelligence has no interest in building robots. Instead, the team has something better in mind: powering the hardware with the continuously learning generalist 'brains' of ...

A robotic arm watches a human unzip a pencil pouch for roughly ten seconds — and then does it on its own, without any additional instruction and without being retrained. That is the core result of GEN ...

Last week, I ventured a whopping 15 minutes from my house to see robots do some mind-boggling, jaw-dropping stuff. The arms mastered a range of tasks after ingesting a short, instructional video and, ...

In 2026, we’re seeing robots progress by leaps and bounds with markedly improved dexterity, the kind of progress long needed in the quest for truly useful household helpers. Now a new AI model has ...

Generalist, a robotics startup, is now valued at $3 billion after raising additional capital led by 8VC, according to two people with knowledge of the funding. The fresh capital totals nearly $200 ...

The robot, a pair of disembodied arms with crablike pincers at the end, wasn’t supposed to pick up the bag. It had been told to do a single tedious job: open plastic bags on a conveyor belt and stuff ...

Artificial intelligence startup Generalist AI Inc., a startup building embodied robotics intelligence, said today it has raised $400 million in new funding, bringing the company’s valuation to $2 ...

At GTC 2025, Nvidia demonstrated 1X’s NEO Gamma humanoid robot running its GR00T N1 foundation model. At GTC 2025, Nvidia demonstrated 1X’s NEO Gamma humanoid robot running its GR00T N1 foundation ...

Generalist AI Inc., a startup that develops artificial intelligence software for robots, has reportedly raised $200 million in funding. Axios today cited a source as saying that 8VC led the investment ...