Physical AI Daily — August 12, 2026

Autonomous trucks, construction robots, commercial cleaning and robot learning all face the same challenge: getting beyond the pilot. DAF and Einride move toward production-platform autonomy, RIC Robotics puts two autonomous construction systems to work across a 65+ home deployment, Pudu targets smaller commercial sites, and Surgical WAM shows how ordinary video could reduce expensive robot-training data. Today: what it actually takes for physical AI to scale.