Physical AI Daily - August 28, 2026

Skild AI's S1 attempts unseen, long-horizon manipulation tasks after seeing just one video demonstration, potentially turning robot training into something much closer to prompting. Anthropic introduces a common hardware standard connecting AI agents to robot arms and physical equipment, with LeRobot already adding support. And Meta is reportedly testing robots on one of manipulation's deceptively difficult real-world jobs: maintaining servers and handling cables inside AI data centers. Today: what happens when teaching, connecting and operating robots all become cheaper.