Hedra Grows Revenue 15x and Opens Its Model Factory to Build the Brains of Physical AI
Physical AI, the branch of artificial intelligence that lets machines see, move and act in the real world, has become one of the fastest-growing corners of venture capital. Startups building robots, autonomous vehicles, drones and defense systems raised $47.4 billion in the first half of 2026, more than the $41.9 billion they raised across 2022, 2023 and 2024 combined. Factories alone installed 542,000 industrial robots in 2024, with more than 700,000 a year expected by 2028.
Every one of those machines needs intelligence built for its own job. A robot that packs boxes and a camera that spots factory defects need very different models, trained on video, sensor and simulation data that is far larger than text. Building those models has required a frontier research lab, while running them in production drives a global AI inference marketprojected to grow from $106 billion in 2025 to $255 billion...
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