Antler has deployed £2.2 million into 10 UK pre-seed startups, with over one-third of the cohort focusing on physical AI and industrial automation.
Startup studio Vantora has raised $100 million from Silversmith Capital Partners to pivot toward building proprietary physical AI ventures for corporate clients.
Treble Technologies has raised $18 million in a Series A-2 round to scale its acoustic simulation platform for physical AI development, bringing its total funding to €36 million.
Simulation startup Antioch Inc. has raised $32 million in Series A funding to scale its robot testing simulation platform.
Arm has united over 80 companies, including AWS and Siemens, to create a common standard for describing robotic capabilities through the Robotics Capability Framework.
Xiaomi Auto's L3 autonomous driving lead Wang Naiyan has left to launch a physical AI startup focusing on robot brains.
