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01
NEWSPITCHBOOK NEWSSEP 16, 2026
Meet our VC all-star team
PITCHBOOK NEWS
02
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AISEP 16, 2026
DynoFluxBench: Benchmarking Kinodynamic Space-Time Planners in Dynamic Environments
FRANZ QUEISSNER, ANDREAS ORTHEY, WOLFGANG HÖNIG
03
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AISEP 16, 2026
Reinforcement Learning for Real-Time Vision-Language-Action Policies
PERRY DONG, CHELSEA FINN, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
04
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AISEP 14, 2026
Evidence-Gated Task and Motion Planning with Vision-Language Models
TSUNEHIKO TANAKA, EDGAR SIMO-SERRA, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
05
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AISEP 14, 2026
MessyMem: Learning-from-Doing Memory for Mobile Manipulation
ANUVA BANWASI, CHERIE HO, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
06
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AISEP 14, 2026
ResSafe: Learning Safety Filtering with Residual Reinforcement Learning for Humanoids
GECHEN QU, JASON JANGHO CHOI, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
07
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AISEP 14, 2026
The Embodiment Gap in Robot Foundation Models
Y. DOMAE, RYO HANAI, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
08
PODTHE A16Z SHOWSEP 13, 2026
World Models, Robotics, and the Future of 3D AI
JUSTIN JOHNSON, SOFIA PUCCINI, THEO JAFFEE
09
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AISEP 13, 2026
Teach and Grow: An Agent-Centered Architecture for General Robot Learning
CHANG NIE, ZHE LIU, HESHENG WANG
10
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AISEP 13, 2026
Toward Unified Robot Learning: Bridging Representation, Vision-Language-Action, and World Models
SHAUNAK A. MEHTA, KANATA SUZUKI, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
11
NEWSLIFEARCHITECT.AISEP 11, 2026
The Memo - 12/Sep/2026
LIFEARCHITECT.AI
12
NEWSPITCHBOOK NEWSSEP 11, 2026
VC’s paper gains look wild
PITCHBOOK NEWS
13
NEWSSOURCERY NEWSLETTERSEP 11, 2026
BREAKING: Saronic CEO Dino Mavrookas (Part II)
MOLLY O'SHEA
14
NEWSSOURCERY NEWSLETTERSEP 11, 2026
BREAKING: Saronic HQ + Factory Tour (Part I)
MOLLY O'SHEA
15
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AISEP 9, 2026
Assembling Two Parts in One Hand
LIUAO PEI, JIE SONG, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
16
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AISEP 9, 2026
GTA-2: A Multi-VLM Framework for Synthesizing Robot Manipulation Skills via Grounded Task Axes
M. YUNUS SEKER, OLIVER KROEMER, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
17
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AISEP 9, 2026
Learning Terrain-Adaptive Humanoid Locomotion on Granular Terrain
JUNNOSUKE KAMOHARA, YE ZHAO, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
18
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AISEP 9, 2026
MuJoCable: Reduced-Order Surface-Routed Cable Transmission for Tendon-Driven Robots
YI ZHANG, YUE XIE, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
19
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AISEP 9, 2026
ViBe: Visual Behavior Adaptation for Perceptive Humanoid Whole-Body Control
LOKESH KRISHNA, QUAN NGUYEN, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
20
NEWSPARSERS VCSEP 8, 2026
Weekly Funding rounds / Statistics / Insights of September 8, 2026
PARSERS VC
21
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AISEP 8, 2026
AccelMPC: High-Rate, Low-Power FPGA-Accelerated Model Predictive Control for Tiny Drones
ANDREA GRILLO, BRIAN PLANCHER
22
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AISEP 8, 2026
GigaBrain-0.7: Scaling Embodied Foundation Models to Emergent Capabilities with a Three-System Architecture
GIGABRAIN TEAM, ZHENG ZHU, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
23
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AISEP 8, 2026
Towards Human-like Physical Intelligence: Lifelong Vision-Language-Action Learning for Robotic Manipulation
YAO HE, YANG CONG, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
24
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AISEP 7, 2026
ICI-VLA: In-Context Imitation with Spatiotemporally Aligned Demonstrations for Vision-Language-Action Models
SONGHUA YANG, MIAO LI, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
25
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AISEP 7, 2026
Learning to infer and manipulate through distributed whole-arm interaction in a soft robot
CHUHAN ZHANG, COSIMO DELLA SANTINA, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
26
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AISEP 7, 2026
Zero-Shot Sim-to-Real Contact-Rich Assembly via Proprioception-Anchored Cross-Modal Pretraining
YUHAN WANG, WENZHAO LIAN, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
27
NEWSDATA DRIVEN VCSEP 6, 2026
🔥World's Hottest Startups in September 2026
ANDRE RETTERATH
28
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AISEP 5, 2026
DREAM: Deployment-Time Demonstration Generation via Real-to-Sim for Scalable Policy Adaptation
MAKOTO SATO, YUSUKE IWASAWA, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
29
PODTHE A16Z SHOWSEP 4, 2026
Fei Fei Li: The Race to Build World Models For AI
BEN MILDENHALL, FEI FEI LI, JUSTIN JOHNSON, MARTIN CASADO
30
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AISEP 4, 2026
TourPhysics: Bringing Physics to World Models for Exploration and Manipulation from a Single Image
XIN ZHANG, XUELONG LI, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
31
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AISEP 3, 2026
WISE: World-model-guided Imagination Scheduling for Efficient Post-training of Vision-Language-Action Models
CHENHAO ZHANG, LONG ZENG, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
32
NEWSPITCHBOOK NEWSSEP 2, 2026
Top 100 colleges for founders 🎓
PITCHBOOK NEWS
33
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AISEP 2, 2026
Humanoid Safe Stop via Learned Stoppability Value
JUNFENG LONG, C. KAREN LIU, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
34
NEWSPARSERS VCSEP 1, 2026
Weekly Funding rounds / Statistics / Insights of September 1, 2026
PARSERS VC
35
POD晚点聊 LATETALKSEP 1, 2026
180: 具身智能的金钱游戏:进展难测、收入催熟与 IPO 竞速
MANCHI, 晚点团队
36
NEWSPITCHBOOK NEWSAUG 31, 2026
Hardware is eating the world, too
PITCHBOOK NEWS
37
PODTHE A16Z SHOWAUG 28, 2026
The Infrastructure Behind the Machine Age
BEN HOROWITZ, ERIK TORENBERG, MARTIN CASADO, RAGHU RAGURAM, SPEAKER_04
38
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAUG 28, 2026
ChainSplat: A Physics-Inspired Screw-Theoretic Model for Learning Deformable Linear Object Dynamics from Multi-View RGB Videos
SEUNGYEON KIM, NOÉMIE JAQUIER
39
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAUG 28, 2026
Contact-Guided Exploration for Non-Prehensile Locomanipulation with Multi-Critic RL
SIMONE TOLOMEI, MARCO HUTTER, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
40
NEWSAXIOS AI+AUG 27, 2026
🚨 Big Tech's big resistance
AXIOS AI+
41
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAUG 27, 2026
CLAP: Cross-Embodiment Video World Models are Zero-Shot Physical Simulators
KECHEN LIU, OLA SHORINWA
42
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAUG 27, 2026
FlashVLA: Streaming Action Decoding for Fast and Asynchronous VLA Inference
ZEKAI LI, JIAMING TANG, ZHIJIAN LIU
43
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAUG 27, 2026
GRAFT: Grounded and Efficient Online Reinforcement Adaptation for Fine-Grained Robot Manipulation
YIBO QIU, MINGZHAI SUN, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
44
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAUG 27, 2026
Riemann-1.0: An Embodied World Action Model for Physical AI
HAOFENG SUN, YANGGUANG LI, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
45
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAUG 27, 2026
TemporalFlow-VLA: Learning Physically Grounded Execution History for Long-Horizon Robot Manipulation
JIARUI YANG, ENYU LI, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
46
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAUG 26, 2026
One Policy, Many Embodiments: Unified Camera-Centric Action Geometry Pre-training for Heterogeneous Embodied Manipulation
XIAOMI EMBODIED INTELLIGENCE TEAM, ZHI-XIN YANG, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
47
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAUG 26, 2026
R3: Training Robots to Reason in Natural Language via Reinforcement Learning
LEHONG WU, AVIRAL KUMAR, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
48
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAUG 26, 2026
V-Link: Recovering Lost Visual Representations in Action DiT for Vision-Language-Action Models
YEHAO LU, XI LI, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
49
NEWSPITCHBOOK NEWSAUG 25, 2026
A recipe for VC indigestion
PITCHBOOK NEWS
50
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAUG 25, 2026
NVIDIA Cosmos-H-Dreams: Real-Time Generative Physics Simulation for Surgical Robotics
JAVIER GAMAZO TEJERO, SEAN D. HUVER, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
51
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAUG 25, 2026
TrAct: Bridging Robot Control and Visual Prediction with Visual Tracks
ZHI CAO, HUANG HUANG, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
52
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAUG 24, 2026
NebulaVLA: A Dual-Frequency Vision-Language-Action Model With Guide Action for Robotic Manipulation
CONGYU ZHAO, RICHA YANG, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
53
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAUG 23, 2026
GeniWorld: A Generalizable Interactive World Model for Robotic Manipulation via Visual Actions
CHENGHAO GU, ZHI WANG, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
54
NEWSLIFEARCHITECT.AIAUG 22, 2026
The Memo - Special edition - Life at home with an AI agent - 22/Aug/2026
LIFEARCHITECT.AI
55
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAUG 21, 2026
Beyond Imitation: Self-Improving Robot Policies via Off-Policy Q-Planning
VARUN GIRIDHAR, ANIMESH GARG, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
56
NEWSPITCHBOOK NEWSAUG 20, 2026
Stripe's $7B+ AI plumbing play
PITCHBOOK NEWS
57
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAUG 20, 2026
DECOWAM: Decoupled Whole-Body World-Action Model for Legged Mobile Manipulation
SIYUAN MA, QIAOJUN YU, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
58
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAUG 20, 2026
EXIMO: VLM Guided Exploration of VLA Policies
BHAVYA SUKHIJA, MARTIN RIEDMILLER, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
59
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAUG 20, 2026
Video2DoorTraversal: Push Door Traversal via Simulated Door Twins
XINCHENG TANG, RUIGANG YANG, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
60
NEWSSTRICTLYVCAUG 19, 2026
Anthropic Overtakes OpenAI in Quarterly Sales
CONNIE LOIZOS
61
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAUG 19, 2026
ADEPT: Accelerating Dexterity via Pre-Training and Post-Training using Reinforcement Learning
JAYJUN LEE, ANKUR HANDA, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
62
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAUG 18, 2026
Hydra-0: Action Flow for Generalist World Modeling and Control
HONGYU LI, YAN CHANG, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
63
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAUG 18, 2026
PRISM: Precision and contact-rich Real-world Industrial Skill dataset with Multimodal sensing
TENGBO YU, HANGXIN LIU, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
64
NEWSAXIOS PRO RATAAUG 17, 2026
Axios Pro Rata: Founder flux
DAN PRIMACK
65
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAUG 17, 2026
StellaVLA: In-Context Structured Demonstration for Generalizable Vision-Language-Action Models
SIYU XU, CHANG XU, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
66
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAUG 16, 2026
Revisiting Open-Loop Execution in Robotics: Toward Reactive, Higher-Performing Policies
MICHAEL ZENG, RUSS TEDRAKE, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
67
PODMY FIRST MILLIONAUG 14, 2026
$39B founder says his company could 100x in 5 years
BRETT ADCOCK, SAM PARR, SHAAN PURI, UNKNOWN SPEAKER 02
68
NEWSSOURCERY NEWSLETTERAUG 14, 2026
BREAKING: Inside Neros' Factory
MOLLY O'SHEA
69
PODTHE A16Z SHOWAUG 14, 2026
Ben Horowitz and Travis Kalanick on Building Again
BEN HOROWITZ, ERIK TORENBERG, TRAVIS KALANICK
70
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAUG 14, 2026
Reflex: Enabling Fast and Predictive Vision-Language-Action Models for Reaction-Critical Manipulation
YUXUAN CHEN, WANRUO ZHANG, XIAO LI
71
NEWSLIFEARCHITECT.AIAUG 13, 2026
The Memo - 14/Aug/2026
LIFEARCHITECT.AI
72
PODLIGHTCONEAUG 13, 2026
Chelsea Finn: This is the State of the Art in Robotics
CHELSEA FINN
73
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAUG 13, 2026
ContactGuard: Pre-Contact Execution Monitoring with Action-Conditioned Latent World Models
GEHAN ZHENG, MATTHEW JOHNSON-ROBERSON, WEIMING ZHI
74
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAUG 13, 2026
Decoding Task Progress from VLA Representations
ATIKSH BHARDWAJ, PRESTON CULBERTSON, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
75
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAUG 13, 2026
Deliberate Practice: Learning Robot Skills under a Budget
SHIVAM VATS, GEORGE KONIDARIS, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
76
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAUG 13, 2026
FlashDrive: Flash Vision-Language-Action Inference for Autonomous Driving
ZEKAI LI, ZHIJIAN LIU, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
77
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAUG 13, 2026
H2R-Bench: Benchmarking Human-to-Robot Manipulation Video Generation in World Models
DINGYI RONG, NING LIU, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
78
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAUG 13, 2026
Temporal GRPO: Beyond Trajectory-Level Credit in Vision-Language-Action Reinforcement Learning
YAO ZHOU, WENWEN QIANG, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
79
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAUG 12, 2026
Safe Reinforcement Learning using Ideas from Model Predictive Control
GEORGE SCHAFER, S. HIRLAENDER, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
80
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAUG 12, 2026
SeededGrasp: Language-Guided Grasping in Complex Scenes with Multiple Embodiments
YANG XU, IGOR GILITSCHENSKI, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
81
POD张小珺JÙN|商业访谈录AUG 12, 2026
150. 对英伟达研究副总裁刘洺堉的4小时访谈:Cosmos 3、世界模型、武术、黄仁勋影响我的,和你不需要击败所有对手
刘洺堉, 张小凡
82
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAUG 11, 2026
Adaptation of Generalist Robot Policies with Minimal Data
SHREYAS KOWSHIK, AVIRAL KUMAR, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
83
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAUG 11, 2026
RoboBRIDGE: A Modular Framework for Bridging Policies to Robust Real-World Robotic Agents
SIHYUNG YOON, HONGUK WOO, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
84
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAUG 11, 2026
Teaching Tiny VLA Models Where to Look and How to Move
IOK TONG LEI, ZHIDONG DENG, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
85
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAUG 11, 2026
XCoT-VLA: Executable Chain-of-Thought for Vision-Language-Action Driving
FOUNDATION MODEL TEAM, XPENG INC
86
NEWSTHE VC CORNERAUG 9, 2026
The Endgame Of Vertical Integration🤖, VC Fund Performance💰, The Frontier AI Price Wars Continue💸
THE VC CORNER
87
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAUG 9, 2026
ASCII Art Turns LLMs into VLA Controllers
YITAO JIANG, DEVIN J. BALKCOM, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
88
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAUG 8, 2026
WorldBagel: Uncovering the Power of Unified Multimodal Models for Vision-Language-Action-World Modeling
ZELIN ZHAO, YONGXIN CHEN, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
89
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAUG 7, 2026
How Should Vision-Language-Action Models Use Proprioceptive State?
YIREN ZHAO, RUSHI DAI, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
90
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAUG 7, 2026
Learning Fault-Tolerant Locomotion with Adaptive Gait Timing
GIOVANBATTISTA GRAVINA, NIKOS TSAGARAKIS, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
91
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAUG 6, 2026
ARGUS: Aligning Robot Scene Geometry Under Shifting Views with Large 3D Vision Models
RISHIK SATHUA, HAONAN CHEN, KATHERINE DRIGGS-CAMPBELL
92
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAUG 6, 2026
XEWorld: Can Action-Conditioned World Models Generalize to Unseen Robot Embodiments?
YIXIANG CHEN, LIANG WANG, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
93
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAUG 6, 2026
ω-0: A Latent Predictive World Action Model for Concurrent Humanoid Loco-Manipulation
ZHE LI, SHANGHANG ZHANG, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
94
PODTHE A16Z SHOWAUG 5, 2026
Three Startups Reinventing Critical Infrastructure
DOUG BERNAUER, ERIK TORENBERG, ERIN PRICE-WRIGHT, TURNER CALDWELL, WILL O'BRIEN
95
PODLIGHTCONEAUG 4, 2026
Waymo Co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov: "Move Fast And Ship Safely"
DMITRI DOLGOV
96
NEWSPOSTROUNDAUG 4, 2026
Series B activity: July 2026
POSTROUND
97
PODTRAINING DATAAUG 4, 2026
Chai Discovery's Bitter Lesson: Drug Design Is Another Scaling Problem
JOSH BIRKLEY, MATT MCPARTLON, PAT GRADY / SONALI SINGH
98
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAUG 4, 2026
SiMDex: Mining Similar Egocentric Videos for Cross-Embodiment Dexterous Manipulation
NIE LIN, YOICHI SATO, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
99
NEWSPOSTROUNDAUG 3, 2026
Series A activity: Week of July 26, 2026
POSTROUND
100
NEWSTHE AI CORNERAUG 3, 2026
Jensen Huang Bet Wrong, Told the Truth, and Built a $5 Trillion Company
THE AI CORNER
101
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAUG 2, 2026
Demystifying When and Why VLAs Fail in Contact-Rich Tasks and How to Fix Them
CARLOTA PARÉS-MORLANS, JEANNETTE BOHG, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
102
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAUG 2, 2026
Rapid Embodiment Adaptation for Quadrupedal Locomotion
DICHEN LI, HENRIK I. CHRISTENSEN, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
103
NEWSPITCHBOOK NEWSJUL 30, 2026
VC’s alchemists of AI
PITCHBOOK NEWS
104
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUL 30, 2026
ACE-Data-0: Human-Centric Ambient Capture as Embodied Data Engine
YUKANG CAO, ZIWEI LIU, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
105
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUL 30, 2026
FA-RDP: A Frequency-Adaptive Reactive Diffusion Policy for Contact-Rich Manipulation
LIFENG ZHUO, CHUAN WEN, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
106
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUL 30, 2026
FasTac: A Curved Multispectral Vision-Based Tactile Sensor for High-Speed High-Precision 3D Shape and Force Perception
XIAOFAN LU, ZHOUPING YIN, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
107
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUL 30, 2026
PAC-MAN: Perception-Aware CBF-RL for Whole-Body Safety in Humanoid Dodgeball
LIZHI YANG, JUNHENG LI, AARON D. AMES
108
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUL 29, 2026
ContactFlow: A video action conditioning that transfers across embodiments
SAMI AZIRAR, HERMANN BLUM, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
109
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUL 29, 2026
TurboVLA: Real-Time Vision-Language-Action Model at 32 Hz on an RTX 4090 with <1 GB VRAM
HENGYI XIE, HAN DING, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
110
PODALL INJUL 28, 2026
The $1/Hour Worker: Four Robotics CEOs on Humanoids at Home, China's Threat, and the End of Dangerous Jobs
AMANDA MCMASTER, BERND BORNICK, DR. PÉTER FANKHAUSER, JASON CALACANIS, JONATHAN HURST, PÉTER FANKHAUSER
111
NEWSPARSERS VCJUL 28, 2026
Weekly Funding rounds / Statistics / Insights of July 28, 2026
PARSERS VC
112
PODTHE A16Z SHOWJUL 28, 2026
Fei-Fei Li on Spatial Intelligence and Robotics
FEI-FEI LI, MARTIN CASADO, YUNZHU LI
113
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUL 28, 2026
Reeling It In: Flexible Needle Pick Up via Thread Manipulation for Autonomous Suturing
EMMA HUANG, MICHAEL C. YIP, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
114
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUL 28, 2026
Transformer Transformer: A Unified Model for Motion-Conditioned Robot Co-design
HUY HA, C. KAREN LIU, SHURAN SONG
115
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUL 28, 2026
πR2: Reactive Real-time Flow Policies
SUNGJAE PARK, SHUBHAM TULSIANI
116
NEWSJACK CLARK FROM IMPORT AIJUL 27, 2026
Import AI 466: The bitter lesson for robotics, AIs complete week-long programming tasks; and OpenAI's accidental A…
JACK CLARK FROM IMPORT AI
117
PODLIGHTCONEJUL 27, 2026
Jensen Huang: The Mindset That Built NVIDIA
GARRY TAN, JENSEN HUANG
118
NEWSPOSTROUNDJUL 27, 2026
Series A activity: Week of July 19, 2026
POSTROUND
119
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUL 27, 2026
Data Pyramid for Embodied Manipulation
YIFAN YE, SHANGHANG ZHANG, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
120
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUL 27, 2026
Drop-Then-Recovery: How Redundant Are Vision-Language-Action Models?
GUOHENG SUN, ANG LI, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
121
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUL 27, 2026
WOLF-VLA: Whole-Body Humanoid Optimal Locomotion Framework for Vision-Language-Action Learning
MELYA BOUKHEDDIMI, FRANK KIRCHNER, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
122
NEWSTHE VC CORNERJUL 26, 2026
Anthropic's 10-Slide Deck 💰, Blueprint for Agent-First Software🤖, Top SaaS Vendors💳
THE VC CORNER
123
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUL 26, 2026
DeMaVLA: A Vision-Language-Action Foundation Model for Generalizable Deformable Manipulation
TAIYI SU, YI XU, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
124
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUL 26, 2026
N0-TWAM: Scaling Tactile-Native World-Action Model for Contact-Rich Manipulation
NEOTEAI TEAM, FUDAN TEAI TEAM
125
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUL 26, 2026
N0-VTLA: Scaling Vision-Tactile-Language-Action Model with Latent Tactile Tokens
NEOTEAI TEAM, FUDAN TEAI TEAM
126
PODNO PRIORSJUL 23, 2026
Building an Autonomous Delivery Experience with DoorDash Co-Founders Andy Fang and Stanley Tang
ANDY FANG, SARAH GUO, STANLEY TANG
127
NEWSPARSERS VCJUL 23, 2026
Weekly TOP Startup / VC news of July 23, 2026
PARSERS VC
128
PODTHE A16Z SHOWJUL 23, 2026
Building the Physical AI Stack | Travis Kalanick on TBPN
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129
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ELAD GIL, INTERJECTOR, LIAM FEDUS, NO PRIORS ANNOUNCER
380
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAPR 2, 2026
ForeAct: Steering Your VLA with Efficient Visual Foresight Planning
ZHUOYANG ZHANG, SONG HAN, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
381
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAPR 2, 2026
Xiaomi-Robotics-0: An Open-Sourced Vision-Language-Action Model with Real-Time Execution
RUISI CAI, QUAN ZHOU, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
382
POD晚点聊 LATETALKAPR 2, 2026
157: 具身季报26Q1:人形再思考、英伟达世界模型、高自由度灵巧手
MANCHI, 晚点团队
383
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAPR 1, 2026
Functional Force-Aware Retargeting from Virtual Human Demos to Soft Robot Policies
UKSANG YOO, HARSHA PRAHLAD, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
384
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAPR 1, 2026
Learning Humanoid Navigation from Human Data
WEIZHUO WANG, MONROE KENNEDY, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
385
PODINVEST LIKE THE BESTMAR 31, 2026
Sergey Levine - Building LLMs for the Physical World - [Invest Like the Best, EP.465]
PATRICK O'SHAUGHNESSY, SERGEY LEVINE, SHOW DISCLAIMER
386
NEWSPITCHBOOK NEWSMAR 31, 2026
US carmarkers' futures ride on AI
PITCHBOOK NEWS
387
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAR 31, 2026
Coordinated Humanoid Manipulation with Choice Policies
HAOZHI QI, JITENDRA MALIK, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
388
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAR 31, 2026
DIAL: Decoupling Intent and Action via Latent World Modeling for End-to-End VLA
YI CHEN, XIHUI LIU, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
389
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAR 30, 2026
FocusVLA: Focused Visual Utilization for Vision-Language-Action Models
YICHI ZHANG, JIA WAN, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
390
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAR 30, 2026
OmniGuide: Universal Guidance Fields for Enhancing Generalist Robot Policies
YUNZHOU SONG, KOSTAS DANIILIDIS, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
391
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAR 30, 2026
SOLE-R1: Video-Language Reasoning as the Sole Reward for On-Robot Reinforcement Learning
PHILIP SCHROEDER, ONDREJ BIZA, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
392
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAR 30, 2026
Scaling World Model for Hierarchical Manipulation Policies
QIAN LONG, XINGHANG LI, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
393
POD张小珺JÙN|商业访谈录MAR 30, 2026
134. 和谢晨聊“数据的综述”:AI和机器人数据的历史、版图、金字塔与Recipe
ZHANG XIAOJUN, 张小珺
394
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAR 29, 2026
Rethinking Visual-Language-Action Model Scaling: Alignment, Mixture, and Regularization
YE WANG, QIN JIN, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
395
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAR 29, 2026
ST4VLA: Spatially Guided Training for Vision-Language-Action Models
JI-LU YE, JIANGMIAO PANG, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
396
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAR 28, 2026
VLAW: Iterative Co-Improvement of Vision-Language-Action Policy and World Model
YANJIANG GUO, CHELSEA FINN, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
397
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAR 27, 2026
Disentangled Robot Learning via Separate Forward and Inverse Dynamics Pretraining
WENYAO ZHANG, LI ZHANG, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
398
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAR 26, 2026
A Unified and General Humanoid Whole-Body Controller for Versatile Locomotion
YUFEI XUE, JIANGMIAO PANG, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
399
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAR 26, 2026
OmniRetarget: Interaction-Preserving Data Generation for Humanoid Whole-Body Loco-Manipulation and Scene Interaction
LUJIE YANG, GUANYA SHI, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
400
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAR 26, 2026
SoftMimicGen: A Data Generation System for Scalable Robot Learning in Deformable Object Manipulation
MASOUD MOGHANI, AJAY MANDLEKAR, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
401
NEWSAXIOS AI+MAR 25, 2026
👋 Sora sunsets
AXIOS AI+
402
PAPRMIT RESEARCHMAR 25, 2026
Open-World Task and Motion Planning via Vision-Language Model Generated Constraints
NISHANTH KUMAR, CAELAN REED GARRETT, ET AL. (MIT)
403
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAR 25, 2026
Steerable Vision-Language-Action Policies for Embodied Reasoning and Hierarchical Control
WILLIAM CHEN, SERGEY LEVINE, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
404
NEWSTHE VC CORNERMAR 24, 2026
YC W26 Demo Day: Everything You Need to Know About the Strongest Batch in Y Combinator History
THE VC CORNER
405
PAPRBEIJING ACADEMY OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (BAAI) RESEARCHMAR 23, 2026
Being-0: A Humanoid Robotic Agent with Vision-Language Models and Modular Skills
HAOQI YUAN, ZONGQING LU, ET AL. (BEIJING ACADEMY OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (BAAI))
406
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAR 23, 2026
DualCoT-VLA: Visual-Linguistic Chain of Thought via Parallel Reasoning for Vision-Language-Action Models
ZHIDE ZHONG, HAOANG LI, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
407
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAR 23, 2026
UniDex: A Robot Foundation Suite for Universal Dexterous Hand Control from Egocentric Human Videos
GU ZHANG, HUAZHE XU, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
408
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAR 23, 2026
WholeBodyVLA: Towards Unified Latent VLA for Whole-Body Loco-Manipulation Control
HAORAN JIANG, HONGYANG LI, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
409
POD晚点聊 LATETALKMAR 22, 2026
155: 贾鹏创立至简后的首次访谈:从英伟达到理想,具身智能的六边形战士
MANCHI, 晚点团队
410
NEWSSTRICTLYVCMAR 20, 2026
Jeff Bezos Is Raising a $100B AI Fund
CONNIE LOIZOS
411
PODALL INMAR 19, 2026
Jensen Huang LIVE: Nvidia's Future, Physical AI, Rise of the Agent, Inference Explosion, AI PR Crisis
BRAD GERSTNER, CHAMATH PALIHAPITIYA, DAVID FRIEDBERG, DAVID SACKS, JASON CALACANIS, JENSEN HUANG
412
PAPRMIT RESEARCHMAR 19, 2026
Scaling Sim-to-Real Reinforcement Learning for Robot VLAs with Generative 3D Worlds
ANDREW CHOI, WEI XU, ET AL. (MIT)
413
PAPRMIT RESEARCHMAR 19, 2026
Sparse Autoencoders Reveal Interpretable and Steerable Features in VLA Models
AIDEN SWANN, MAC SCHWAGER, ET AL. (MIT)
414
NEWSTHE VC CORNERMAR 19, 2026
Travis Kalanick: 10 Lessons on Stealth Building, Physical AI, and His New $70B Bet
THE VC CORNER
415
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAR 19, 2026
OmniVTA: Visuo-Tactile World Modeling for Contact-Rich Robotic Manipulation
YUHANG ZHENG, WENCHAO DING, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
416
PODALL INMAR 17, 2026
Travis Kalanick &amp; Michael Dell Live from Austin, Texas
BRAD GERSTNER, CHAMATH PALIHAPITIYA, DAVID FRIEDBERG, DAVID SACKS, JASON CALACANIS, MICHAEL DELL, TRAVIS KALANICK
417
NEWSTHE GENERALISTMAR 17, 2026
Why Robots Still Struggle With Simple Tasks (And What Might Finally Change That) | Karol Hausman, Co-Founder & CEO…
KAROL HAUSMAN (PHYSICAL INTELLIGENCE CO-FOUNDER/CEO), MARIO GABRIELE
418
PODTEDMAR 13, 2026
Bernt Børnich (1X) — Meet NEO, Your Robot Butler in Training
BERNT BØRNICH (1X FOUNDER/CEO)
419
PODCLIMB BY VSCMAR 12, 2026
Jagdeep Singh (Rhoda AI) — 10 Hours, Not 10,000: $450M to Train Robots on YouTube
JAGDEEP SINGH (RHODA AI CO-FOUNDER/CEO), HOST
420
PODTURN THE LENSJAN 24, 2026
Pete Florence (Generalist) — Scaling Laws, Train One Improve All
PETE FLORENCE (GENERALIST CO-FOUNDER/CEO), JEFF FRICK
421
PODTRAINING DATADEC 16, 2025
Why the Next AI Revolution Will Happen Off-Screen: Samsara CEO Sanjit Biswas
PAT GRADY, SONYA HUANG, SANJIT BISWAS
422
PODA16Z PODCASTDEC 15, 2025
The “Factory Thinking” Mindset Transforming Companies | a16z 2026 Big Ideas
UNKNOWN HOST
423
PODHUMANOIDS SUMMITDEC 11, 2025
Pete Florence (Generalist) — Why Robot Intelligence Will Be General
PETE FLORENCE (GENERALIST CO-FOUNDER/CEO), HUMANOIDS SUMMIT HOST
424
PODBLOOMBERG LIVEDEC 1, 2025
Fei-Fei Li (World Labs) — On Creating Large World Models
FEI-FEI LI (WORLD LABS CO-FOUNDER/CEO), BLOOMBERG LIVE HOST
425
POD张小珺JÙN|商业访谈录 (ZHANG XIAOJUN BUSINESS INTERVIEWS)NOV 28, 2025
Interview with DeepMind's Jie Tan: Robotics, Cross-Embodiment, World Models, Gemini Robotics 1.5, and Google
JIE TAN, ZHANG XIAOJUN
426
PODLATENT SPACENOV 25, 2025
Fei-Fei Li & Justin Johnson (World Labs) — After LLMs: Spatial Intelligence and World Models
FEI-FEI LI (WORLD LABS CO-FOUNDER/CEO), JUSTIN JOHNSON (WORLD LABS CO-FOUNDER), LATENT SPACE HOSTS
427
PODSOURCERYNOV 24, 2025
Inside Thrive Capital: Investing in OpenAI, Wiz, Cursor, Nudge, Physical Intelligence
PHILIP (PARTNER AT THRIVE CAPITAL), MOLLY O'SHEA (HOST)
428
POD晚点聊 LATETALK (INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM)NOV 23, 2025
141: The Former Head of DJI LiDAR Developed an "Electric Wheelchair"? Talking Entrepreneurship with Strutt's Hong Xiaoping After Two and a Half Years: Not Doing Humanoid Robots Can Still Lead to Embodied Intelligence
MANCHI, HONG XIAOPING
429
PODNO PRIORSNOV 20, 2025
No Priors Ep. 141 | With Sunday Robotics Co-Founders Tony Zhao and Cheng Chi
UNKNOWN HOST, UNKNOWN GUEST, CHENG CHI, TONY ZHAO
430
PODTRAINING DATANOV 18, 2025
How End-to-End Learning Created Autonomous Driving 2.0: Wayve CEO Alex Kendall
PAT GRADY, SONYA HUANG, ALEX KENDALL
431
PODUNCAPPED FOUNDERSNOV 12, 2025
The Breakthrough For Home Robots | Kyle Vogt, CEO of the Bot Company
JACK ALTMAN, KYLE VOGT
432
PODONE-OFF EPISODESNOV 11, 2025
Lindon Gao, Dyna Robotics, Sebastian Spitzer, AI Infra, HPE - F50 Physical AI Summit
JENNIFER PURPOSE-JAY-AUTS
433
PODMORE OR LESSOCT 31, 2025
Stuart Landesberg's Plan to Save the American West from Wildfires
JESS RUNNING THE INFORMATION'S MASSIVE WTF CONFERENCE, SAM OFF-GRID ON A MOUNTAIN, BRIT, DAVE HOLD DOWN THE FORT WITH STUART L, ESBERG, CEO OF SENECA, A SLOW-, OFFLINE-BACKED STARTUP BUILDING AUTONOMOUS FIREFIGHTING DRONES. BETWEEN DEEP TECH INSIDE JOKES, STUART COINS PRO-AMERICA TECH, SENECA’S MODEL OF DETECT EARLY, RESPOND FAST, OUTPERFORMS RETROFITTING HOMES OR RELYING ON PILOTS. WITH DEM, RISING FROM CITIES, UTILITIES, INSURERS PROTECTING $5T IN ASSETS, STUART’S FOCUSED ON BUILDING LONG-TERM ENTERPRISE VALUE, NOT CHASING THE AI HYPE CYCLE., US HERE:
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PODONE-OFF EPISODESOCT 22, 2025
Lindon Gao - Dyna
LINDON GAO
435
PODONE-OFF EPISODESOCT 21, 2025
#38 Karol Hausman & Kevin Black: Building A Brain For Any Robot | AI Eating The Physical World
UNKNOWN HOST, KEVIN BLACK, CARL HAUSMAN
436
PODONE-OFF EPISODESSEP 25, 2025
$600M AI Robots Powering the Future of the Physical Economy
THIA, JASON MA
437
PODONE-OFF EPISODESSEP 12, 2025
Fully autonomous robots are much closer than you think – Sergey Levine
SERGEY LEVINE, DWARKESH PATEL
438
PODONE-OFF EPISODESSEP 4, 2025
AI Robots for Your Laundry w/Lindon Gao LIVE FROM CLEAN - S6E103 The Laundromat Millionaire Show✈️
DAVID CARLEMAN, DAVID CARLEMAN, LINDON GAO, CRAIG TAYLOR
439
PODONE-OFF EPISODESJUN 7, 2025
【BAAI2025】 Building Physical Intelligence | Karol Hausman
KAROL HAUSMAN
440
PODONE-OFF EPISODESAPR 26, 2025
The Race to Create General-Purpose Robots | Karol Hausman & Lachy Groom on TBPN
HOST, KAROL HAUSMAN, LACHY GROOM
Physical AI: Podcast & Newsletter Summaries | Teahose