Google Brings Intrinsic In House to Accelerate Physical AI Development
Google has brought robotics software company Intrinsic fully in house, signaling a major push to integrate its AI models and cloud infrastructure into industrial robotics.
Robotics Software
Robotics software forms the digital backbone of modern robotic systems, enabling perception, control, coordination, and learning. This topic covers operating systems, middleware, simulation tools, and control frameworks used to build and manage robots. It also explores how software platforms support modular development, hardware abstraction, and integration with AI models. Robotics software plays a key role in accelerating development cycles and enabling scalable deployment across different robot types. As robots become more complex, software increasingly defines system capabilities and performance.
NVIDIA Introduces Cosmos Policy to Advance Robot Control
NVIDIA has unveiled Cosmos Policy, a unified AI model for robot control and planning built on its world foundation models, improving manipulation performance and real-world task execution.
Xiaomi Open-Sources Robotics-0: A Vision-Language-Action Model for Generalist Robots
Xiaomi has released Robotics-0, an open-source Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model designed to enable real-time perception and control for embodied AI systems, marking a strategic push into foundational robotics software.
CES 2026 Puts Physical AI and Robots at the Center of Tech’s Next Wave
By
Kseniia Klichova
• 4 mins read
CES 2026 marked a turning point for Physical AI, as humanoids, autonomous machines, and AI-driven platforms moved from experiments to scalable, real-world systems.
CES 2026: Caterpillar and NVIDIA Push Physical AI Into Heavy Industry
By
Rachel Whitman
• 4 mins read
Caterpillar and NVIDIA deepened their partnership at CES 2026, outlining how Physical AI will transform construction, mining, manufacturing, and industrial supply chains.
Humanoid Builds HMND 01 Alpha in 7 Months Using NVIDIA Robotics Stack
By
Laura Bennett
• 4 mins read
London-based startup Humanoid moved from concept to a functional alpha prototype of its HMND 01 robot in seven months, compressing a development cycle that typically takes up to two years.
CES 2026: Mobileye to Acquire Mentee Robotics for $900M to Accelerate Physical AI Push
By
Rachel Whitman
• 4 mins read
Mobileye agreed to acquire humanoid robotics startup Mentee Robotics for $900 million, expanding its autonomy technology from vehicles into Physical AI and general-purpose humanoid robots.
CES 2026: Qualcomm Unveils Dragonwing Robotics Platform to Power Physical AI
By
Daniel Krauss
• 4 mins read
Qualcomm introduced a comprehensive robotics technology stack at CES 2026, unveiling new processors and partnerships aimed at scaling Physical AI from service robots to full-size humanoids.
CES 2026: Kodiak and Bosch Partner to Scale Autonomous Trucking Hardware
By
Daniel Krauss
• 4 mins read
Kodiak has entered a strategic agreement with Bosch to scale production-grade autonomous trucking hardware, aiming to accelerate commercial deployment of driverless trucks.
UPS Buys Hundreds of Robots to Automate Truck Unloading Operations
By
Daniel Krauss
• 3 mins read
UPS has purchased hundreds of warehouse robots designed to unload packages from trucks, expanding automation across its U.S. logistics network to address labor strain and efficiency demands.