AWS rolled out cloud-to-edge solutions to help customers operationalize physical AI, which extends foundation-model capabilities into robots and other devices that perceive and act in real environments. The article cites an out-of-distribution test where Config’s generative multi-view augmented data raised success rates from 8.3% to 75%. This shifts physical AI from demos toward repeatable deployments by emphasizing end-to-end pipelines for data, simulation, edge inference, fleet management, and continuous cloud-to-device feedback loops.
Researchers at TU Delft developed a system that lets a passenger backseat-drive an autonomous car by turning natural-language requests into parameter changes for a safety-aware motion planner. In simulation on nuPlan across 8 prompts, the system adjusted speed and steering smoothness to match user intent. The work shifts control from direct driving decisions to an LLM-mediated tuning of planner criteria with a confirmation step and safety baselines.
General Intuition is in talks for a new funding round with Valor Equity Partners, Point72 Ventures, and Seven Seven Six at a $6 billion pre-money valuation. The company previously raised $320 million only weeks earlier at a $2.3 billion valuation. The additional money would go toward improving its generalized AI model for robotic embodiments, including more compute spending and hiring.
Generalist AI released GEN-1.5, a robot foundation model that can learn a new physical manipulation task from a single short demo using one-shot in-context prompting. Dropping 3–12 seconds of sensorimotor data into a 30-second context window produced an average 59% success rate across 10 tasks. The company reports that adding 10 gradient steps on about five minutes of data per task raises success to 83%, but the release remains a research-only signal with no public weights, API, or self-serve product.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul withdrew a proposal that would have allowed driverless robotaxis outside New York City, and lawmakers and labor groups continued pushing back against legalization efforts. Six months later, commercial driverless service remains illegal in the state. In Washington, D.C., unions oppose a legalization bill while lawmakers consider a 200-vehicle cap and a 15-cent-per-mile fee to fund Metro upgrades and support displaced workers.
Embedd, a London-based physical AI software startup founded by Ukrainian entrepreneurs, raised a $2.7M pre-seed round led by Seedcamp. The company says its platform cuts chip-to-software integration from 4–6 months to around 3 weeks. Embedd will use the funding to expand its platform and deepen partnerships with semiconductor companies to speed up adoption of new chips in robots, vehicles, drones, and medical devices.
Xpeng raised over $900 million via a separate round for its robotics business while keeping the unit as a consolidated part of the parent company. The post-money valuation is more than $6.3 billion. The funding is set to support mass production readiness, in-house model training and chip/software development, and expansion with the humanoid robot IRON.
NEURA Robotics is acquiring ADLATUS Robotics to expand its Physical AI robotics ecosystem for autonomous cleaning. The deal covers 100 per cent of ADLATUS’s shares from Ulm. ADLATUS systems will gain additional sensors and AI capabilities and be gradually integrated into the Neuraverse so the robots can recognize surfaces/soiling, choose cleaning strategies, and learn from real-world use.
European tech weekly recap tracked more than 45 European tech funding deals alongside over 5 exits, M&A, rumours, and related stories. The coverage totals over €684M in funding. It highlights fintech (€239.2M), robotics (€178M), and artificial intelligence (€99M) as the top-funded industries while naming country leaders and specific deals.
Tiangong Ultra and other Chinese humanoid robots outpaced Usain Bolt’s 100-meter mark at the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing. Tiangong Ultra ran 100 meters in 9.39 seconds. The event adds faster bipedal robot performance results for the 2025 edition, which includes 2,056 robots from 16 countries.
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