Perceptron Inc. has launched Mk1, a proprietary video analysis reasoning model designed for temporal continuity and physical understanding, including object dynamics and analog reading. The company claims performance leadership on spatial and video benchmarks while pricing the API at $0.15 per million input tokens and $1.50 per million output tokens—80 to 90% cheaper than major frontier models.
Meta has acquired Assured Robot Intelligence (ARI), a US startup founded in 2025, to strengthen its push into “physical AI” and humanoid robotics. Financial terms were not shared. ARI’s team will join Meta’s Superintelligence Labs, aiming to improve robot learning, behavior prediction, and real-world control—though consumer-ready home robots still face major safety, cost, and reliability hurdles.
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LG Electronics and Nvidia are reportedly discussing a partnership spanning robotics, AI data centres, and mobility technologies, an emerging push toward what the industry calls “physical AI.” The talks suggest traditional electronics firms are moving beyond devices into the core infrastructure that powers intelligent machines, from computing to deployment-ready mobility solutions.
Humyn Labs, a physical AI startup, plans to deploy $20 million to scale its human data layer, aimed at making robots learn beyond controlled environments. The funding will expand data collection operations across India, Southeast Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East—addressing a major bottleneck for robotics companies: limited availability of high-quality, real-world human data.
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