Physical AI Daily - August 27, 2026

Solinftec reports more than 100 agricultural robots covering 55,000 acres, monitoring 95 million plants and completing over 1,700 autonomous refills, showing how closing mundane operating loops can dramatically reduce human attention. Shield AI runs its Hivemind autonomy software onboard a real satellite, European startup Motion raises $2 million around a hardware-neutral Humanoids-as-a-Service model, and RoboSense reports robotics lidar shipments up 510% while moving into tactile sensing and robot joints.