✍️ Not Boring: Physical AI Week — Enigma Raises $71M for Robot-Control Platform as DoorDash and Zoox Clear Regulatory Milestones
• Robotics startup Enigma exited stealth with a $71M seed round (Index Ventures, Ribbit Capital) and opened 100+ real robots to public control online, betting that studying how people command machines yields better interfaces and data.
• Google DeepMind shipped Gemini Robotics 2, a full-body control model family already driving Apptronik's Apollo humanoid.
• DoorDash earned FAA Part 135 certification to launch drone delivery ("DoorDash Air"); Amazon's Zoox won the first US approval for steering-wheel-free robotaxis.
• OpenAI is giving 10,000 researchers free frontier-model access, scaling to 100,000 by 2027.
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