Verified Events
DateTypeCompanyHeadlineSegment
AstraQua secures $1.275m NASA Phase II contract for AstraSense
- The work builds on Phase I real-time diagnostics and predictive-health demonstrations to NASA.
- Phase II advances aircraft integration, health-informed reasoning, and verification and validation for safety-critical applications.
- AstraSense feeds machine-health information into AstraQua’s broader low-power onboard reasoning and robot-coordination architecture.
Eka Robotics closes $150 million Series A at $1.45 billion valuation
- Obvious Ventures and E14 Fund continued their support after leading the seed financing.
- Other named participants include MFV Partners, Bison Ventures, Glasswing Ventures and Samsung Next.
- The funding supports expansion of the Vision-Force-Action model to more tasks and acceleration of customer deployments.
Dream Labs raises $90 million seed financing
- B Capital led the $90 million seed round, with Kindred Ventures and other institutional and angel investors participating.
- The new capital will primarily fund compute as Dream Labs expands the robot types, tasks and developer capacity supported by its services.
- The financing accompanies the launch of Dream API and a browser playground that gives users access to real robots.
Dream Labs launches Dream API for robot foundation-model access
- The service converts camera inputs, robot state and language instructions into robot actions.
- Initial work focuses on tabletop gripper manipulation; wheeled robots and dexterous hands are planned extensions.
- The company reports more than twenty hardware partners and distinguishes baseline zero-shot control from additional partner-specific adaptation.
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 Instinct, which trained a server-assembly policy within three days.
- Beta participation is by application; most showcased applications use cloud-hosted inference, with network connectivity identified as an area for improvement.
Rhoda demonstrates tactile sensing with touch-guided Direct Video-Action models
- Tests cover normal and shear force, vibration and temperature, spanning millinewtons to over 40 newtons.
- Contact vibrations are sampled at approximately 500 Hz.
- Results are company-reported; the post does not release code, model weights or a downloadable dataset.
Odyssey releases Odyssey-3 foundation world model research preview
- Odyssey reports Pro scores of 66.1 on Physics-IQ Verified video-to-video and 54.7 on image-to-video using prompt enhancement and best-of-eight selection.
- The company reports first place in three of four WorldMark categories in its own evaluations.
- Robot demonstrations include recovery from missed grasps and dropped objects; physical-system adaptation uses learned action decoders or policies.
Aether AI demonstrates CRIS-0 causal robotic intelligence system
- The agent decomposes a small set of demonstrations into verifiable stages and selects rule-based functions, learned policies, navigation and world-model tools.
- When verification fails, the system can re-grasp, revisit a prior stage, replan or revise a failing tool implementation.
- Future-video samples generated by the world model are presented separately from the physical robot demonstrations.
TwelveLabs releases Pegasus 1.6 for video understanding
- Documented uses include action labeling, quality checks of Physical-AI footage and prediction of an operator’s next action.
- The model supports a 261,120-token context window and analysis of one to twenty images per request.
- Video segmentation can return timestamped events within segments, alongside improved entity recognition and metadata extraction.
Field AI reportedly signs $700M financing term sheet at $10B valuation
- The proposed valuation would be five times the company’s previous $2 billion valuation.
- Combined revenue and customer contracts total more than $135 million, including at least $35 million added since June.
- The earlier commercial milestone covered more than 30 customers spanning construction, data centres and defence.
Field AI and General Robotics validate autonomy with HTX through Dimension X
- Field AI-powered quadrupeds located spill sources and potential casualties without human pre-mapping.
- A separate General Robotics evaluation used GRID for elevator-button pressing and corridor navigation.
- The work involved HTX’s Robotics, Automation and Unmanned Systems Centre of Expertise through Dimension X Cohort 5.
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 coming months, following the pre-launch partner programme.
General Intuition raises $220M at a $6.2B valuation
- Valor Equity Partners led the financing, with Atreides, Seven Seven Six, Point72, Khosla Ventures and General Catalyst participating.
- The capital supports expansion of its research and engineering teams in New York and Europe.
- The company opened a waitlist for partners seeking early model access across games, simulation and robotics.