Physical AI Daily — August 6, 2026

Avatar Robotics raises $6.5 million to deploy remotely operated warehouse robots that create customer value and training data before achieving full autonomy. The U.S. Air Force and Lockheed Martin also demonstrate an AI agent using live infrared data to direct an autonomous airborne intercept. Today’s episode examines how human control evolves into shared autonomy—and why useful work per human hour may be the metric that matters.