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The data behind Physical AI

How humanoid robots learn to perceive and act, and why the human-labeled data underneath decides which ones actually work.

A two-armed robot labeled Duo and Apptronik's Apollo humanoid labeled Apollo in a workshop, with colored point-cloud overlays on a tray and on shelf objects, and the words Gemini Robotics ER 2 across the middle.

Radar· 6 min read · Oct 31, 2026

This Week in Robotics: Oct 26-Nov 1, 2026

Google's reasoning model checks whether a task step succeeded, Bleu Robotics wants to teach factory robots from a handful of demonstrations, ROKAE puts force-controlled arms on a real factory line, and a new surgical robot venture keeps the surgeon in control.

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Two members of Hugging Face's LeRobot team in Hugging Face T-shirts standing in front of a whiteboard on either side of a white Reachy humanoid robot in a striped top.

Profiles· 8 min read · Oct 28, 2026

Hugging Face: Bringing Open-Source AI Into Robotics

Hugging Face sells two Reachy robots from Pollen Robotics and gives away LeRobot, the software to train them. Here's how the platforms differ, what buyers should know, and why useful robot learning still depends on data quality.

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Diagram of robot video of a robot hand over a white cup passing through an AI model to automated labels, then to a human review panel that confirms the labels and sets the outcome.

Annotation· 6 min read · Oct 28, 2026

Automated Data Labeling: Where Human Review Fits

AI can find the moments that matter in hours of robot video and propose labels for them. Here's how CreativAI structures that footage, and where human review turns candidate labels into ones a team can train on.

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Four views of the same simulated warehouse with racks, a forklift and two workers in hi-vis vests: the rendered scene, a depth map, a color-coded segmentation map, and the scene with bounding boxes around the people and the forklift.

Radar· 6 min read · Oct 25, 2026

This Week in Robotics: Oct 19-25, 2026

Nvidia is releasing human activity data, OpenAI is stepping into hardware, Unitree is building a loop where AI refines its own robot code, and IDC shows humanoids moving from demos to real work.

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A grid of robot deployments from Pi's partners around a large center frame of a yellow autonomous wheel loader lifting its bucket beside a dump truck.

In Focus· 5 min read · Oct 18, 2026

Pi's New Robot API: Failures Decide What Data Comes Next

Physical Intelligence's API beta takes over fine-tuning and inference. The more telling part is how its early partners improved their robots: by letting each failure decide what to record next.

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A person at a laptop in the foreground while an ABB robot arm behind them lifts a bagged garment out of a grey tote in a sorting cell lit by blue light bars.

Radar· 6 min read · Oct 16, 2026

This Week in Robotics: Oct 12-18, 2026

Germany is reportedly preparing a major state-backed Nvidia partnership, ABB is closing the loop on its fashion-logistics robots, NEURA is giving robots memory, and Hong Kong is building a place to test them all.

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Three students in safety glasses working together on a small robot built from metal parts, on a steel workbench in a workshop.

Evaluation· 8 min read · Oct 15, 2026

Robot Benchmark Design: How to Build Test Scenarios That Reflect Real-World Robot Performance

A robot is only as well tested as the scenarios it faces. Here's how robotics teams design benchmarks, variations, edge cases, and scoring rules that produce reliable comparisons across policy versions.

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Orange industrial robot arms working on both sides of a parts conveyor in a factory.

Physical AI· 7 min read · Oct 12, 2026

Why Is Robot Manipulation Hard Across Different Objects?

Recognizing an object doesn't tell a robot how to hold it. Here's how shape, weight, material and clutter each change the problem, and what training data needs to capture.

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Close-up of Boston Dynamics' Atlas humanoid robot: a round head ringed with white light above a white torso carrying the company's name, in a lab with yellow safety posts.

Profiles· 8 min read · Oct 11, 2026

Boston Dynamics: Teaching Atlas to Work Beyond Simulation

Boston Dynamics trains its electric humanoid in simulation first, then proves each skill on real hardware. Here's how Atlas works, where Hyundai fits in, and why the data from real-world trials decides how far simulation can take it.

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