Physical AI Daily - August 18, 2026

from Physical AI Daily · host Amit Moran

SoftBank makes a $200 million bet on Gravis Robotics and the idea that Physical AI can scale by turning existing excavators and heavy equipment into autonomous machines. FORT Robotics plans a roughly $557 million public-market deal around robot safety and intervention infrastructure, Hesai's robotics lidar shipments jump 193%, and Tesla reportedly prepares Cybercab for Austin. Today: from brownfield autonomy to purpose-built robots, and the stack emerging between them.

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