Physical AI Daily - August 26, 2026

Philips receives up to $33.7 million from ARPA-H to develop AI-enabled robotic stroke interventions that could eventually make scarce specialist expertise available far beyond today's stroke centers. Waymo chooses Munich for its first planned EU robotaxi service, NVIDIA doubles entry-level edge robotics inference performance with Jetson Orin Nano 2, and the Linux Foundation adds AIRSEAI as an open-source effort to make embodied intelligence more portable across robot hardware. Today: what happens when Physical AI starts scaling across boundaries.