Physical AI Awards opens: last year's winners RoboForce and Gather AI raised $92M combined
lukas_m_ziegler · x · 2026-10-14
The Physical AI Awards, run by Nebius with NVIDIA, is now open for applications — free to enter, worldwide, closing October 25.
- Last year drew 250+ applications from 60+ countries; 16 winners shared $1.5M in compute credits. Two winners have since raised $92M: RoboForce ($52M) and Gather AI ($40M Series B)
- Judges include people from NVIDIA Robotics, OpenAI, and Khosla Ventures
- Category winners get $150K in Nebius AI Cloud credits, executive mentorship, investor intros, channel exposure, and a VIP dinner at CES
- Five categories: Physical AI Models, Perception & Spatial Intelligence, Simulation & Synthetic Data, Systems & Deployment, and Software/Tooling/Orchestration
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