Global Resource Map

Global Physical AI Resources

More than a link directory: this page adds editorial judgment, tags, summaries, core value notes, and usage guidance so each resource becomes a reusable research asset.

Internal starting points

Use our structured database and analysis first, then extend your research through global sources.

Database

Robot Database

Structured tracking of global robot specs, status, pricing signals, and commercialization progress.

Companies

Company Database

Profiles of global Physical AI and robotics companies, funding, products, and official sites.

Reports

Industry Reports

Long-form industry judgment, trend analysis, market structure, and development paths.

Insights

Latest Insights

Global coverage of humanoid robotics, embodied AI, and industry shifts.

Global key resources

Grouped by industry research, company/product sources, developer platforms, papers/open source, market data, and Chinese sources.

Industry news & research

Best for tracking industry shifts, company moves, and commercialization signals.

Global

English IndustryDeveloperEngineering

IEEE Spectrum Robotics

A high-quality bridge between robotics engineering, research progress, and industry trends.

Covers robotics research, hardware innovation, lab results, and engineering practice with strong technical context.

Core value

Helps explain why a technology matters and how far it remains from reliable productization.

How to use

Use for technology-roadmap analysis, then verify specifications and commercial claims with primary sources.

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US / Global

English IndustryStartupInvestment

The Robot Report

A key source for North American robotics industry news and commercialization signals.

Covers robotics companies, launches, funding, M&A, events, and real deployments with an industry lens.

Core value

Useful for identifying robotics segments moving from demos toward orders, deployments, and ecosystem development.

How to use

Review weekly company news and features to identify updates for company, robot, and industry assets.

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Companies & product sites

Best for verifying first-party product information, release cadence, and official narratives.

English ProductEngineeringIndustry

Boston Dynamics

The official site of a benchmark company in dynamic robotics, reliable engineering, and productization.

Presents Atlas, Spot, Stretch, industry solutions, technical stories, and customer cases.

Core value

Useful for comparing robot mobility, engineering maturity, product boundaries, and application choices.

How to use

Use for product and roadmap verification, and study customer cases to understand mature robotics deployment.

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English Company ResearchProductInvestment

Figure AI

A primary source for a leading US general-purpose humanoid robotics company.

The site publishes Figure robot, Helix model, manufacturing, partnership, and deployment updates.

Core value

Useful for verifying Figure's product roadmap, model architecture, manufacturing progress, and official narrative.

How to use

Prioritize official news and product pages while labeling production, deployment, and performance claims as company-reported.

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Developer & simulation platforms

Best for robotics toolchains, simulation environments, and software infrastructure.

Global

English DeveloperOpen SourceDatasets

Hugging Face LeRobot

An open-source entry point for real-world robot learning models, datasets, and workflows.

Provides robot interfaces, standardized datasets, imitation learning, reinforcement learning, VLA models, and hardware integrations.

Core value

Useful for tracking whether robot learning develops a shared-data, pretrained-model, and low-cost-hardware ecosystem.

How to use

Inspect repository activity, documentation, supported hardware, and dataset formats before choosing a model or workflow.

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Global

English DeveloperSimulationRobotics Software

NVIDIA Isaac

NVIDIA's core platform entry point for robotics development, simulation, training, and deployment.

Connects Isaac Sim, Isaac Lab, Isaac ROS, GR00T, synthetic data, and robotics deployment workflows.

Core value

Helps explain how models, simulation, data generation, accelerated computing, and edge deployment form a Physical AI stack.

How to use

Start with the platform overview, then inspect documentation and GitHub repositories for versions, hardware requirements, and openness.

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Papers, data & open source

Best for frontier papers, datasets, models, and open-source projects.

Global

English PapersResearchDeveloper

arXiv Robotics

A high-frequency frontier feed for robotics research preprints.

Continuously publishes preprints across robotics, control, perception, planning, manipulation, and embodied AI.

Core value

Useful for early discovery of research directions, but inclusion does not imply peer review or commercial value.

How to use

Screen weekly, then inspect code, data, experimental design, and later peer-review status.

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Global

English DatasetsPapersEmbodied AI

Open X-Embodiment

An important project for cross-embodiment datasets and generalist robot policy research.

Aggregates data across robot platforms to study generalization across embodiments and tasks.

Core value

Helps explain data scale, standardization, cross-embodiment transfer, and generalist policy challenges.

How to use

Use alongside papers, dataset documentation, and model results, focusing on whether heterogeneous robot data is genuinely comparable.

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Investment, reports & market data

Best for market size, funding, installation data, and commercial opportunities.

Global

English Market DataIndustryInvestment

International Federation of Robotics

One of the authoritative sources for global robot installations, regional structure, and industry statistics.

Publishes industrial and service robot statistics, World Robotics reports, news, and industry viewpoints.

Core value

Useful for building credible macro baselines for market size, installations, adoption, and regional differences.

How to use

Cite methodology and report year, and avoid directly extrapolating industrial robot data to humanoids.

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Global

English InvestmentFundingCompany Research

PitchBook

A private-market data platform for cross-checking funding, investors, deals, and valuations.

Provides private-company, funding-round, investor, deal, and market research data, with most depth behind a paywall.

Core value

Useful for completing robotics company capital profiles and cross-checking official announcements, filings, and other databases.

How to use

Do not treat platform estimates as company-confirmed facts; record date, round, and source differences.

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Chinese industry sources

Best for China market context, supply chains, company updates, and local industry language.

China

中文 Supply ChainIndustryMarket

高工机器人

A Chinese source focused on robotics supply chains, manufacturing, and industry activity.

Covers industrial robots, mobile robots, component companies, market developments, and industry events.

Core value

Useful for China-specific supply-chain, component, and manufacturing signals often missed by English sources.

How to use

Use to discover company and supply-chain leads, then verify through official sites, announcements, or filings.

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China

中文 AIPapersIndustry

机器之心

A Chinese source connecting AI research, open-source projects, company news, and embodied intelligence discussions.

Covers AI papers, open models, technical explainers, company news, and embodied intelligence topics.

Core value

Useful for discovering Chinese technical discussions and local context around the intersection of foundation models and robotics.

How to use

Use as a discovery source, then trace claims to papers, repositories, company announcements, or original interviews.

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