Physical AI capital moves — 12–18 October 2026 - 2026-10-18 - Article - Funding, acquisitions, strategic investments and public-market milestones across robotics, autonomous systems and the technologies that enable them.
GigaBrain-0.7: Scaling Embodied Foundation Models to Emergent Capabilities with a Three-System Architecture - 2026-08-16 - Research Publication - GigaBrain-0.7 combines action control, understanding and planning, and world-model prediction in a three-system embodied model. GigaAI reports training on over 37,000 hours of heterogeneous data and physical evaluation on… - source: arxiv.org
LingBot-VLA: A Pragmatic VLA Foundation Model - 2026-01-26 - Research Publication - LingBot-VLA is a vision-language-action model and software release evaluated on the GM-100 benchmark with AgiBot G1, AgileX and Galaxea R1Pro robots. - source: github.com
Genie Sim 3.0: A High-Fidelity Comprehensive Simulation Platform for Humanoid Robot - 2026-01-05 - Research Publication - Genie Sim combines scene generation, synthetic manipulation data and automated policy evaluation. The paper describes more than 10,000 hours across 200 tasks; four-task physical transfer experiments use AgiBot G1, while G1… - source: arxiv.org
FiveAges robot_usds simulation asset library - Research Publication - A shared library of robot USD assets for ROS 2 control and Isaac Sim development, with configurable robot and end-effector models. - source: github.com