Today's lineup follows physical AI out of the lab and onto the factory floor, the warehouse, and even Mars. From Boston Dynamics teaching Atlas to earn its keep at Hyundai's Georgia plant to NVIDIA's argument that scaling autonomy means baking in safety at every layer, the theme is deployment meeting reality — and a robot vacuum showing up in court.

In today’s roundup

• Boston Dynamics opens Metaplant Application Center to train Atlas humanoids — The Robot Report
  Boston Dynamics is giving Atlas a real job site to learn on inside Hyundai's Metaplant America, a telling step toward humanoids doing actual factory work.
• Why Deploying Physical AI at Scale Demands Safety at Every Layer — NVIDIA Robotics Blog
  With tens of millions of autonomous vehicles projected within a decade, NVIDIA argues that safety can't be an afterthought bolted onto physical AI at scale.
• RLWRLD teams with CJ Logistics to advance robot foundation models — Automated Warehouse
  RLWRLD and CJ Logistics are pairing robot foundation models with warehouse operations, a bid to turn physical AI into logistics-as-a-service across global markets.
• Mars rovers give scientists a ground-level view of the red planet – peek inside their NASA control room — Robohub
  A rare look inside Curiosity's control room shows the daily choreography of scientific decisions behind every meter the rover crawls across Mars.
• Caught on camera: How smart home devices are reshaping courtroom evidence law — Interesting Engineering
  A robot vacuum's footage catching a spouse's affair is forcing courts to grapple with what home robots quietly record and whether it counts as evidence.
• WM-VS: Progress-Aligned World Models for Closed-Loop Visual Servoing — arXiv cs.RO
  This work tackles a subtle but crucial gap in visual servoing: predicting whether an action actually reduces task error, not merely whether it looks plausible.
• AeRove: A Compact Bimodal Aerial-Terrestrial Drone with Rapid Bistable Reconfiguration for Close-Range Pipeline Inspection — arXiv cs.RO
  AeRove flips between flying and driving via bistable reconfiguration, a clever fix for the power drain and airflow woes that plague drones inspecting pipelines up close.

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