Ultra Timeline

Events

• 2026-10-13 - Product Launch - Physical Intelligence opens Pi API beta to more robot developers - Teams can upload their robot data, launch fine-tuning on PI-managed compute and infrastructure, and run the resulting models through hosted inference. Early users include Argon Robotics, which trained a dish-racking policy within 35 hours, and General… - source: pi.website
• 2026-10-09 - Funding - Ultra raises $50 million Series A for warehouse robotics - The total includes an earlier $12 million seed round led by Y Combinator and NextView. Warehouse customers pay an installation fee followed by monthly charges for hardware and software support. Ultra says its robots have packed more than 500,000 orders… - source: fortune.com
• 2026-09-30 - Research Publication - Runway introduces Praxis-1 world action model for real robots - Noble Machines, Standard Bots and Ultra are testing the model on their hardware, including the Standard Bots RO1 arm. The model learns robot actions from large-scale video pretraining combined with robot interaction data. Public weights are planned in the… - source: runway.com
• 2026-08-05 - Product Launch - Shotwell introduces robotics data annotation with Ultra customer results - In its Ultra case study, Shotwell reports that one engineer can review work from over 60 operators, compared with around 10 previously. The workflow labels subtask boundaries, retries and failures; the tower-stacking example distinguishes Pick, Set and… - source: shotwell.ai
• 2026-04-15 - Product Launch - Ultra Robotics introduces Operator industrial AI robot for warehouse automation - Ultra Robotics unveiled Operator as an industrial AI robot designed for continuous warehouse operation rather than demonstration use. Operator is positioned to automate repetitive workflows including packing, sorting, and kitting across fulfillment… - source: x.com
• 2026-03-23 - Production Milestone - Ultrarobotics ships first two builds of newest robot to customer - Ultrarobotics said it shipped the first two builds of its newest robot to a customer after close to a year of development. The company framed the shipment as the start of commercial rollout while noting that a full public reveal is still forthcoming. - source: linkedin.com
• 2025-12-22 - Demonstration - Ultra's AI-Powered Robots Demonstrate Advanced Order Packing Capabilities - Ultra's AI-powered robots are designed to handle complex order packing tasks in e-commerce fulfillment centers The robots utilize modern AI models to adapt to new tasks and environments, moving beyond rigid programming Customers report 30-40% monthly savings… - source: thenewwarehouse.com
• 2025-12-22 - Deployment - Ultra Robotics' robots deployed at Manifest Eco for e-commerce order packaging - • Ultra Robotics deployed two AI-powered robots at Manifest Eco, a third-party logistics provider in Texas, to automate e-commerce order pa... • Each robot operates daily, packing between 800 to 1,000 orders with minimal manual intervention. • The deployment… - source: thenewwarehouse.com