📬 Remix Reality Weekly: When AI Meets Reality

Your free Friday drop of spatial computing updates—plus what Remix Reality Insiders unlocked this week.

🛰️ The Signal

This week’s defining shift.

Perception systems are becoming a priority for physical AI investment.

Perception sits at the base of the physical AI stack. These systems interpret sensor data, map environments, track objects, and give machines the awareness they need to act safely and reliably. They turn raw signals into understanding, which makes every other layer in the stack possible. The recent funding momentum reflects a clear belief that better perception will decide how far physical AI can scale, how many tasks it can take on, and how confidently it can operate in the real world.

👉 Get access to the full insight in this week’s Insider drop.

📡 Weekly Radar

Your weekly scan across the spatial computing stack.

🤖 UBTECH Kicks Off Walker S2 Robot Production, Targeting 500 Units in 2025

• UBTECH has started production and delivery of Walker S2 robots, with 500 units planned for 2025 and over 800 million yuan in total orders.

🏥 Distalmotion Secures $150M to Expand Robotic Surgery Platform in U.S. Outpatient Market

• Distalmotion closed a $150 million Series G round led by Revival Healthcare Capital to scale the U.S. rollout of its soft tissue robotic surgery system.

🏭 Agile ONE Brings Full-Body Humanoid Robotics to the Factory Floor

• Agile ONE is a full-size humanoid robot that navigates factory floors, adapts to workflows, and performs tasks autonomously.

🏎️ A2RL to Host World’s First Six-Car Autonomous Race in Abu Dhabi

• Six autonomous cars from Germany, Italy, and the UAE will compete wheel-to-wheel in the A2RL Grand Final on November 15 for a share of $2.25 million.

🌐 8th Wall to Shut Down After Seven Years of Advancing WebAR

• 8th Wall will shut down in 2026, with access ending February 28 and hosted projects supported until February 2027.

👓 Snke Unveils Purpose-Built AR Glasses Tailored to Surgical and Clinical Demands

• SnkeXR launches as an open platform headset built to meet strict medical standards and support surgical precision.

🧤 1HMX Launches Nexus NX1, a Full-Body Control Platform for Robotics and Simulation

• Nexus NX1 combines haptics, motion platforms, and robotic footwear for high-fidelity human-machine interaction.

🌍 Cisco Invests in Spatial Intelligence Leader World Labs

• Cisco has invested in World Labs through its venture arm, marking the startup’s largest strategic funding to date.

🗺️ SenSen Partners with Point One Navigation to Boost Location Accuracy in Smart City Systems

• SenSen will use Point One Navigation’s positioning network to add real-time, centimeter-level accuracy to its smart city systems.

🛍️ Meta Opens Its Fourth Retail Location with Meta Lab NYC

• The Fifth Avenue space showcases Meta’s latest AI glasses and VR gear, with in-store exclusives and hands-on demos.

🌀 Tom's Take

Unfiltered POV from the editor-in-chief.

AI has eaten the digital world. It has pulled in huge investment, reshaped workflows, and created and demolished entire startups. But all of this is happening behind a screen. LLMs live in the digital space. They can only learn from what we have documented and stored online. They don’t see the real world, and they don’t act in it.

The next big opportunity is changing that. Physical AI brings AI out of the computer and into everyday environments. Instead of systems that only answer questions, search online, or generate content, we get systems that watch what is happening, understand the situation, and take action. This is what unlocks robots that can handle real tasks, autonomous vehicles that read the road in real conditions, and immersive systems that react to people and space with much more accuracy.

This shift opens the door for machines that help with real work. Machines that respond to what people are doing, not just what people typed. Machines that can improve safety, support workers, and take on tasks that depend on real-world awareness.

This is where the next wave of progress will come from. The impact AI has had on the digital world is now moving into the physical one. And that shift is much bigger than a better chatbot. It is about using AI to actually change things in the real world.

Physical AI is the next frontier. It’s where the next big opportunity is.

🔒 What Insiders Got This Week

This week’s Insider drop included:

• 🧠 Reality Decoded: Key takeaways from our interview with Matthew Celia, Co-founder of Emmy award-winning creative studio, Light Sail VR, on immersive video's second era.
• 🔮 What’s Next: Robots built for the unpredictable; robotaxis expand rapidly across the U.S.; and Coco Robotics extends its delivery footprint.

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