Vision
How can embodied intelligence coexist with people in a way people actually trust? Today, embodied systems are being deployed faster than anyone is verifying them. The gap between what these technologies can actually do and what a person can safely believe about them is what will decide whether the bet on physical ai ever gets the chance to solve those problems.
Writing
Research notes are in progress. The first pieces will be published here.
Robotics, sensed
Where robotics and embodied AI are moving right now. Current as of August 2026.
Humanoid — London
$152M Series A at a $1.35B valuation — Europe's first pure-play humanoid unicorn.
NEURA Robotics — Germany
Series C worth up to $1.4B, led by Tether with Amazon, Nvidia, and the EIB.
FCC — Washington
Moves to restrict Chinese-made humanoid and quadruped robots over firmware backdoor findings.
Unitree — Hangzhou
Exploit turns robots into a self-spreading botnet — one compromised unit infecting its peers.
AI² Robotics — Shenzhen
Raised roughly $735M at a ~$3B valuation for wheeled humanoids.
Universal Robots — Odense
CVE-2026-8153 (CVSS 9.8): unauthenticated command injection let attackers run code on PolyScope 5 fleets. Patched in 5.25.1.
Japan Airlines — Tokyo
Put Unitree-based humanoids to work at Haneda Airport — a three-year deployment aimed at labor shortages.
National strategy — Seoul
Korea and Japan unveiled physical-AI strategies — a ~100-trillion-won push to catch China; Korea targets a 20% humanoid share.
LeRobot — Hugging Face
CVE-2026-25874 (CVSS 9.3): unauthenticated RCE reaches the physical machine the policy controls — unpatched at disclosure.
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