Human judgment in the AI era
As AI-powered search becomes more influential, consistency is becoming a competitive advantage.
Platforms like ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, and AI Overviews don’t evaluate a brand based on a single webpage.
They build an understanding of a company using content, media coverage, thought leadership, resource centers, third-party mentions, and other authority signals spread across the web. [Read more…] about 6 Best GEO Agencies for Brand Messaging Consistency
LiberAI, a physical AI startup developing foundation systems for general-purpose robots, is launching Liber-0, a World Action Model pretrained on more than 2.2 million hours of human experience to help robots learn how to interact with the physical world. (See video below.)
Liber-0 combines large-scale human video with directly recorded hand motions, visual and embodiment alignment, and embodiment-conditioned learning, with the aim of turning human experience into generalizable robot manipulation capabilities.
Founded in December 2025, LiberAI has designed its World Action Model to transfer human experience into generalizable robot manipulation capabilities. [Read more…] about From human experience to robot action: LiberAI launches Liber-0 world-action model
As robotics companies race to develop increasingly capable AI models for machines operating in the physical world, TorqueAGI is taking a different approach: supplying the intelligence layer to robot and equipment manufacturers rather than building hardware of its own.
Founded by robotics researcher Dr Ashutosh Saxena, TorqueAGI has spent nearly two years developing and testing what it calls a World-Reasoning Model for industrial robots and heavy machinery.
The company says its approach differs from many vision-language-action models by representing objects, machines and workflows through a spatio-temporal architecture in which physics and geometry form part of the model’s reasoning. [Read more…] about Interview with TorqueAGI founder: ‘Most robot AI is a language or vision model with robot data added to it’
Maxinsights has raised $30 million in seed funding to expand its physical AI data platform, which pays people to record everyday activities such as cooking, cleaning and other work to generate training data for robots and AI models.
The company was founded by robotics and autonomous-driving veterans, with its wider engineering team including former employees of Waymo, Google, Microsoft and Meta.
The funding round was led by PeakXV, with participation from Tola Capital, South Park Commons, INCE Capital and Alumni Ventures.
Maxinsights has also launched MaxLoop, an AI-based system for monitoring and improving the quality of collected footage, and MaxGlove, a sensor glove designed to capture tactile information such as grip force and object weight that cannot be obtained from video alone. [Read more…] about Maxinsights raises $30 million to build training data platform for physical AI
Teradyne Robotics and Sereact have formed a partnership to combine Sereact’s physical AI technology with Universal Robots’ collaborative robots for applications in retail, logistics and manufacturing.
The partnership pairs Sereact’s physical AI platform with collaborative industrial robots from Universal Robots to bring intelligent, adaptable automation to real-world operations previously hard to automate, such as the processing of returned fashion items.
Teradyne Robotics – the company behind Universal Robots and Mobile Industrial Robots – and Sereact, a pioneer in physical AI for robotics, today announced a new, official partnership to accelerate industrial AI solutions in retail, logistics and manufacturing at Nvidia GTC Berlin 2026.
Through this partnership, Sereact’s physical AI platform, Cortex, runs robot arms from Universal Robots to give retailers and logistics providers a proven way to automate unstructured tasks such as returns handling and piece-picking. [Read more…] about Teradyne Robotics and Sereact partner to drive physical AI solutions for retail and logistics
Siemens is collaborating with Nvidia to develop adaptive AI-powered manufacturing capabilities that combine industrial software, Siemens’ Digital Twin technology and Nvidia Cosmos to accelerate production planning, inspection preparation and optimization.
The collaboration combines Siemens’ Teamcenter software for product lifecycle management (PLM) and Process Preparation X with Nvidia Cosmos to create an AI-powered workflow for printed circuit board inspection.
The system is designed to help electronics manufacturers prepare and optimize automated optical inspection (AOI) processes before physical production begins. [Read more…] about Siemens and Nvidia advance AI-powered PCB inspection from digital twin to factory
Comau is boosting the development of AI-enabled robotics and automation solutions for industrial applications with Nvidia technologies.
By combining Comau’s deep experience in robotics with Nvidia physical AI simulation libraries and accelerated computing, the companies are paving the way for the deployment of increasingly intelligent and autonomous robotic systems. [Read more…] about Comau integrates Nvidia technology to accelerate development of AI-powered robots
AI systems are getting better at giving people answers, and their role is expanding beyond traditional productivity.
People are asking AI systems for guidance on careers, relationships, finances and other decisions that are deeply personal.
That begs the question, what should an AI do when there isn’t one objectively correct answer? [Read more…] about Meet Vesela: The AI Built to Make You Think
Dream Labs, an AI company building the brain for everyday robots, has announced $90 million in seed funding led by B Capital along with Kindred Ventures, with participation from A.Capital, Unusual Ventures, SV Angel, Wing VC, Scribble VC, and Adrian Aoun, among others.
Alongside the financing, the company launched Dream API, the first publicly available API that turns a robot’s camera feed and a plain-English instruction into motor commands, even for robots it has never seen before.
Factories worldwide run a record 5 million industrial robots, yet nearly every one is programmed for a single task, and what it learns can’t transfer to another machine. Low-cost robots now sell for a few thousand dollars but ship with no built-in intelligence. [Read more…] about Dream Labs raises $90 million seed funding to ‘build the brain for everyday robots’
Cerence, a developer of conversational AI-powered user experiences, has announced that its collaboration with Geely is expanding from intelligent cockpits to embodied robotics, with the two companies working together to advance multilingual human-machine interaction for robotics applications.
The collaboration with Geely – one of China’s largest automakers – brings Cerence AI’s production-proven speech and conversational AI technologies into physical AI.
As intelligent machines move from controlled environments into real-world settings, natural interaction becomes critical not only to how people experience these systems, but also to how effectively people and machines work together. [Read more…] about Cerence AI and Geely expand partnership from cars to robots
