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.
WorldOracle: Benchmarking Action-Conditioned World Models against Real-World Executions - 2026-10-13 - Research Publication - WorldOracle compares action-conditioned world-model rollouts with paired physical executions under the same starting observation and low-level actions. Its 335-example evaluation spans AgiBot G2, YAM and human-hand… - source: arxiv.org
AgiBot World Challenge 2026 moves embodied AI evaluation onto G2 robots - 2026-06-05 - Research Publication - AgiBot reported that the World Challenge 2026 advanced from simulation to real-robot testing, with finalists completing tasks on AgiBot G2 robots. The source links G2 to embodied-AI benchmarks covering reasoning-to-action… - source: agibot.com
AgiBot World 2026: Real-World Embodied Intelligence Dataset - 2026-04-07 - Research Publication - Embodied-AI training needs structured data from variable real environments rather than only controlled laboratory demonstrations. - source: huggingface.co
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