Physical AI Daily - September 5, 2026

Pudu arrives at IFA with more than 130,000 robots already shipped and a strategy it calls “One Brain, Multiple Embodiments.” iRobot takes specialization even further with a Roomba that deploys another Roomba, Robot.com's 2.4 million delivery tasks lead to a seven-year Sodexo agreement, and new surgical robotics research shows a specialized autonomous skill outperforming VLA baselines. Today: why Physical AI software may become increasingly general even as robot hardware stays specialized.