Physical Intelligence opens robot foundation models through the Pi API beta
Developers can upload robot data, adapt a model on managed infrastructure, and use hosted inference on real robots.
AT A GLANCE
Key points
- Supports uploaded robot data and managed fine-tuning
- Hosted inference runs customized models on robots
- Early trials span several types of hardware and tasks
- Beta participation requires an application
What is changing?
Physical Intelligence opened its latest robot foundation models for training and inference through the Pi API beta on October 13. Developers can upload their own robot data, launch fine-tuning on company-managed compute, and run the resulting model through a hosted gateway.
The API is designed to let teams manage the loop of collecting demonstrations, training a model, testing it on a robot, and gathering new data from failures. The company shows early partners using the workflow for heavy machinery, manufacturing, food preparation, and dual-arm robot tasks.
The beta is not automatically open to everyone; participation requires an application. Physical Intelligence also notes that cloud connectivity created challenges in some real-world deployments and that the systems remain early.
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Source date: 13 October 2026.
Published by AI Radar: 14 Oct 2026, 03:03 (Istanbul, UTC+3).
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