I'm judging at the Nebius Physical AI Awards 🏆 Run by @nebiusai with @NVIDIARobotics. Free to enter, open worldwide. Applications close 25 October, winners announced 18 November. The first thing I'd point at is the category list, because it reads as a decent map of where this field currently sits: → Physical AI Models → Perception & Spatial Intelligence → Simulation & Synthetic Data → Systems & Deployment → Software, Tooling & Orchestration One of five is about models. The other four are about everything that has to exist around a model before it can touch the physical world. Which matches what the funding data has been saying all year: the money and the hard problems are both spread across the stack rather than concentrated on the policy. Each category winner gets $150,000 in Nebius AI Cloud credits, executive mentorship, introductions to investors and industry leaders, visibility across Nebius and NVIDIA channels, and an invite to a VIP executive dinner during CES in Las Vegas. Last year's edition drew more than 250 applications from over 60 countries, with 16 winners sharing $1.5M in credits. RoboForce has since raised $52M. Gather AI closed a $40M Series B. I'm judging alongside Sumay Parikh (NVIDIA), Amber Yang ( Lightspeed), Adrian Macneil ( Foxglove), Brian Moore ( Voxel51) and Evan Helda ( Nebius), Ulrik Stig Hansen (Encord) among others. If you're building here and you have something real running, it's free and it's an application form 🔗 Get more details here: ~~  ♻️ Join the weekly robotics newsletter, and never miss any news →