Physical Intelligence

From promising startups to setbacks for iRobot and Teradyne, here are the top robotics stories of November 2025.

Glacier’s robots promise to help the circular economy become more efficient and to improve sustainability.

Physical Intelligence says Version 6 of its vision-language-action model can reduce failure rates over hours of operation.

PI said its new H-815 hexapod robot is designed for automotive, electronics, photonics, and optics applications.

China is applying its electric vehicle playbook to robotics. Learn what’s real, what’s hype, and levers for U.S. competitiveness.

Generative and embodied AI may lead to general-purpose robots, but developers must avoid speed bumps, says Converge.

In February, our readers were drawn to stories about humanoids, surgical robotics, advances in AI, and industry trends. 

The company said that general purpose models that can control any robot to perform any task will be the future of robotic control

The Robot Report’s top trends of 2024 highlight some of the industry’s biggest highs and lows from the past year.

In November 2024, stories about the future of robotics, big robot milestones, and new product unveilings grabbed our readers’ attention.

Swiss-Mile is productizing a robot that puts wheels onto a four legged robot, and XPENG released a video of of its humanoid at work.

Physical Intelligence is among the companies working to apply foundation models to training general-purpose robots.

Levine will discuss how to build foundation models for end-to-end control of robots. He will also discuss how the industry can gather large and diverse datasets for such systems, and how these systems can enable new and exciting robotic capabilities.

March 2024 robotics funding was buoyed by significant investment into software and drone suppliers.