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Physical AI takes center stage at Asia's premier economics summit. Persona AI Co-Founder and CEO Nicolaus Radford will join global leaders At World Knowledge Forum, September 8-9 in South Korea to discuss the rise of physical AI in heavy industry. Nic will join a panel on "AI Trends 2027: Co-Intelligence for Physical AI" where he will share insights from our commercial engagements with POSCO HOLDINGS and HD Hyundai Heavy Industries and what Physical AI means for the leaders of global commerce. The Shilla Hotels & Resorts Seoul September 9: Gyeongju Physical AI Session. The Persona AI leadership team will be on the ground in South Korea to connect with enterprise leaders, strategic partners, and investors. Schedule a meeting: na2.hubs.ly/H07x-8L0 Persona AI is bringing a new generation of HUMANOIDS AT WORK™ to life. Learn More: na2.hubs.ly/H07x-8L0 #PersonaAI #WKF2026 #WorldKnowledgeForum #HumanoidRobotics #PhysicalAI #IndustrialAutomation #Robotics #FutureOfWork #DeepTech #AI @wkforum @nicolausradford

VOTE NOW: We’ve submitted a panel for SXSW: "Weld Done: Rebooting the Industrial Revolution With Robots" featuring Persona AI Co-Founder & CEO Nicolaus Radford and IEEE Spectrum Senior Editor Evan Ackerman. The next generation of humanoid robots won’t be serving coffee or doing backflips for social media. They’ll be welding, grinding, and building critical infrastructure. Together, they will cut through the hype and dive into what it actually takes to deploy physical AI where it's needed most—in high-value, labor-scarce heavy industries like shipbuilding and manufacturing. In this panel, we'll explore: Why real commercial demand is driving humanoids onto complex shop floors rather than consumer homes. How embodied AI serves as the next platform for rebuilding national industrial productivity. How humanoids augment skilled workers by taking on hazardous, repetitive trades. Help us bring this grounded conversation to Austin! Community voting plays a huge role in the SXSW selection process. 🗳️ Vote for our panel here: na2.hubs.ly/H07lTWG0 This is HUMANOIDS AT WORK™ #PersonaAI #PhysicalAI #SXSW #SXSW2027 #PanelPicker #Robotics #HeavyIndustry #IEEESpectrum #FutureOfWork #IndustrialAutomation @nicolausradford @IEEESpectrum @BotJunkie

"Humanoids desperately need to stop making YouTube videos and get a job already, and Persona AI is one of the few humanoid companies entirely focused on making that happen." Evan Ackerman of IEEE Spectrum recently sat down (virtually) with Persona AI Co-Founder and CEO Nicolaus Radford and Co-Founder and CTO Jerry Pratt to catch up. This article captures what drives our team: pushing past the hype to deliver real utility in heavy industry. As Nic often points out, the real test for humanoid robotics isn't technology for its own sake, it's whether the deployment actually makes financial and operational sense. Factoring in real-world conditions like extreme labor scarcity and environmental complexity is essential. That commercial rationale guided our decision to launch in shipyard welding and expand from there. Instead of forcing heavy industry to redesign facilities around automation, Persona AI is building robots designed to integrate into active work sites with as little friction as possible using standard equipment. Alongside partners like HD Hyundai Heavy Industries and POSCO HOLDINGS, we are in the process of putting humanoids to work on high-value, labor-scarce trades. Check out the full story in IEEE Spectrum: na2.hubs.ly/H07jQ0L0 HUMANOIDS AT WORK™ #PersonaAI #PhysicalAI #Robotics #HeavyIndustry #Shipbuilding #Welding #Engineering #HoustonTech #IEEE #FutureOfWork @nicolausradford @IEEESpectrum @BotJunkie @jerryepratt

Physical AI moves fast when industry leaders build together. Persona AI collaboration with NVIDIA Robotics proves that high-fidelity simulation and digital twins are the commercial foundation for deploying humanoids into real-world heavy industry. From Isaac Lab motion-capture pipelines to path-traced shipyard digital twins in NVIDIA Omniverse, we can train and scale our humanoid for complex tasks like heavy welding long before hardware steps on site. This was filmed at the MACHINA Summit in July, where Persona AI Co-Founder and CEO, Nicolaus Radford, delivered the closing keynote. Nic breaks down how teleoperation serves as the critical foundation for training autonomous AI policies, allowing us to turn expert human demonstrations into scalable data pipelines that solve extreme labor shortages. Check out the full update from NVIDIA Robotics below to see how physical AI is reshaping the future of industrial automation: na2.hubs.ly/H07hjKn0 Want to see how the full pipeline works behind the scenes? Check out our deep dive into teleoperation and embodied AI by Maryam Bandari on the Persona AI blog na2.hubs.ly/H07hfZy0 Watch the full video of our Humanoid welding using these technologies at ARC Specialties na2.hubs.ly/H07hfp10 This is HUMANOIDS AT WORK™ #PersonaAI #PhysicalAI #Robotics #NVIDIA #NVIDIARobotics #Omniverse #IsaacSim #IsaacLab #HeavyIndustry #EmbodiedAI #IndustrialAutomation #FutureOfWork

Persona AI believes navigating complex global supply chains and regulatory mandates isn't an afterthought for industrial physical AI. It is a core commercial requirement from day one. In a new feature for Rest of World , Viola Zhou examines how the Federal Communications Commission’s decision to restrict foreign-produced mobile robots marks a turning point for domestic automation, designed to bridge national policy with operational supply chain security. Our Head of Commercial Strategy, Michael Perry, shares his thoughts on how hardware startups are navigating these evolving federal standards, emphasizing that policy must actively foster domestic manufacturing alongside restrictions: "You need to provide the carrot as well as the stick. Right now, you’re only providing the stick." As U.S. industrial clients increasingly demand secure, risk-free hardware for critical infrastructure, Persona AI has built a resilient supply chain, sourcing high-precision components from trusted allies across Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, and Italy. Read the full Rest of World story here: na2.hubs.ly/H07dVVp0 This is HUMANOIDS AT WORK™ #PersonaAI #PhysicalAI #Robotics #SupplyChain #IndustrialAutomation #HeavyIndustry #FutureOfWork #Hardware #EmbodiedAI @restofworld

High-fidelity simulation and digital twins are not just for show. They are essential commercial tools for scaling physical AI across heavy industry. In a new spotlight feature by Dell, cinematographer Pekka Varis of Cineshare details how he transformed Persona AI’s motion capture and Isaac Lab data into a cinematic shipyard digital twin for the NVIDIA GTC 2026 keynote. Powered by Dell Pro Max Tower T2 workstations and NVIDIA RTX PRO Blackwell 6000 GPUs, Cineshare built path-traced renders and custom Omniverse extensions. High-fidelity visualization directly powers our commercial execution and client deployment model in four key ways: Rapid Site Visualization: Models a client’s facility into an accurate digital twin before physical hardware ever touches the floor. Predictive Operational Planning: Allows engineering teams and partners to simulate exactly how our humanoids will navigate and perform within specific site constraints. Clear Task Roadmaps: Creates an unambiguous visual roadmap of autonomous tasks, building stakeholder confidence before deployment. Internal & External Value: Delivers ground-truth simulation for our autonomous development team while giving executive leaders clear visibility into real-world ROI. As Persona AI Behavior Coordination Lead, Rob Effinger, PhD, noted, bridging physical AI simulation with cinema-grade visual storytelling made all the difference in validating our vision for over 20,000 GTC attendees and Fortune 100 leaders worldwide. Read how Persona AI, Dell, Cineshare, and NVIDIA powered the GTC reveal: na2.hubs.ly/H079WzK0 This is HUMANOIDS AT WORK™ #PersonaAI #PhysicalAI #Robotics #Dell #NVIDIA #Omniverse #IsaacSim #DigitalTwin #HeavyIndustry #CommercialAI #Engineering #FutureOfWork @NVIDIA @Dell

Keeping a human in the loop isn’t a workaround, it’s the fastest path to true industrial autonomy. While others treat teleoperation as a dirty secret, we view it as a core foundation. When our humanoid executed a weld at ARC Specialties here in Houston, a human provided the judgment, while the robot handled balance, joint planning, and footing on uneven ground. Using the latest software systems from NVIDIA Isaac Sim and Isaac Lab, every second of shared control generates the exact training data needed to automate these complex workflows for the future. Our Teleoperation and Data Collection Team Lead, Maryam Bandari, breaks down why teleoperation is not a compromise. Read “Why Teleoperation Is The Fast-Track To Industrial Autonomy“ na2.hubs.ly/H0766qx0 This is HUMANOIDS AT WORK™ #PersonaAI #PhysicalAI #IndustrialAutomation #Robotics #HeavyIndustry #Welding #AItraining #Teleoperation #Engineering #HoustonTech #HoustonInnovation #FutureOfWork #NVIDIA #IsaacLab #IsaacSim @nvidia @ARCSpecialties

If you want to prepare hardware and train AI models for the unpredictable realities of heavy industry, you have to get your hands dirty. The Persona AI engineering and operations teams recently deployed offsite to ARC Specialties here in Houston to test our tech in a real live, hot-work industrial environment. Operating in an unstructured setting provided a lot of insight into how our humanoids might navigate the unpredictable work environments of heavy industry such as fabrication facilities and shipyards. We just dropped a film of the event and a blog post that takes you behind the scenes of the deployment. Watch First Spark: Hand on the Torch na2.hubs.ly/H06B4wK0 This is HUMANOIDS AT WORK™ #PersonaAI #PhysicalAI #IndustrialAutomation #Robotics #HeavyIndustry #Welding #HoustonInnovation #FutureOfWork @ARCSpecialties @personaaiinc

The humanoid revolution isn’t about who builds first. It’s about who deploys at scale. Yesterday, Persona AI Co-Founder and CEO Nicolaus Radford cut through the noise of the robotics landscape at MACHINA Summit in Paris to deliver a hard truth: Humanoids will fundamentally reshape the physical economy by extending human capability into every industry, much like the automobile transformed society a century ago. That revolution will be won by those who build the manufacturing systems, software platforms, and supply chain ecosystems that make widespread deployment a reality. Persona AI is bypassing laboratory novelty to deliver rugged, practical utility directly to the front lines of heavy industry. If you missed the session, connect with our team to discuss commercial deployment partnerships: na2.hubs.ly/H06xTwF0 #PersonaAI #MACHINA2026 #HumanoidsAtWork #Robotics #IndustrialAI #Infrastructure #Execution #PhysicalAI #IndustrialAutomation #Robotics #FutureOfWork #DeepTech #AI @personaaiinc @MACHINASUMMIT

The future of physical AI takes center stage in Paris. To close out MACHINA Summit 2026, Persona AI Co-Founder and CEO Nicolaus Radford will deliver the final keynote on the future of heavy industry robotics. Don't miss this session for an exclusive reveal of our latest developments. MACHINA Summit 2026 July 7 Station F, Paris Master Stage Michael Patrick Perry, our Head of Commercial Strategy, will also be on the ground in Paris to connect with industry leaders to discuss how we can partner to deploy autonomous humanoids into high-risk, heavy-industrial environments. na2.hubs.ly/H06vq4S0 Persona AI is bringing a new generation of HUMANOIDS AT WORK™ to life. na2.hubs.ly/H06vqw00 #PersonaAI #MACHINA2026 #HumanoidRobotics #PhysicalAI #IndustrialAutomation #Robotics #FutureOfWork #DeepTech #AI

To teach a Persona AI humanoid robot how to navigate rugged physical environments naturally, we start by looking closely at how humans do it. This week, Dr. Kevin Green, our Senior Locomotion Engineer, is representing Persona AI at Dynamic Walking 2026 to share exactly how we bridge that gap. Kevin is presenting on "Biomechanics for Industrial Humanoid Locomotion," focusing heavily on translating biological movement data into real-world industrial deployment to build safer, more reliable workplace hardware. As our team continues to hit key milestones in field testing, we are proud to have Kevin sharing our engineering progress with the global locomotion community. Good luck out there, Kevin! Check out the link to learn more about his session. Persona AI is bringing a new generation of HUMANOIDS AT WORK™ to heavy industry. na2.hubs.ly/H06kmPx0 #PersonaAI #HumanoidsAtWork #TechInnovation #LeggedRobotics #FutureOfWork #EmbodiedAI #ReinforcementLearning

Humanoid robotics is moving beyond the hype. In Episode 142 of Machine Minds, Persona AI Co-Founder Jide Akinyode joins Greg Toroosian for a conversation about what it will take to move humanoids from ambitious prototypes to reliable, commercially viable systems. The discussion explores where humanoids can create meaningful value today, why industrial environments are positioned to lead adoption, and the technical and operational challenges the industry must solve to scale. As the conversation around humanoids evolves, the focus is becoming clear: real deployment, measurable impact, and machines designed to perform in the environments that need them most. Humanoids Beyond the Hype Episode 142 Now streaming across all major podcast platforms. Persona AI is bringing a new generation of HUMANOIDS AT WORK™ to life. na2.hubs.ly/H06dPGf0 #PersonaAI #HumanoidRobotics #PhysicalAI #IndustrialAutomation #Robotics #FutureOfWork #DeepTech #AI @personaaiinc @jakinyode

The future of humanoid robotics will not begin in the home. It will begin in heavy industry, where labor shortages, safety risks, and operational complexity create an immediate need for automation. At Persona AI, we are meeting this demand head-on. Headquartered in Houston, Texas, we are developing the next generation of humanoid robots purpose-built for industrial environments. On June 24 at Automate Show 2026, Persona AI CEO & Co-Founder Nicolaus Radford will join Brian Heater, Co-Founder & CEO of A3 - Association for Advancing Automation, for a fireside chat on the commercial viability of humanoid robots. As the industry moves beyond prototypes, they’ll explore real-world implementation, measurable ROI, and the path to scale. Want to connect with us at the event? Michael Patrick Perry, our Head of Commercial Strategy, will be joining Nic at the conference. If you are attending Automate 2026 and want to discuss how we can partner, get in touch to schedule a meeting. Schedule a meeting na2.hubs.ly/H06dQtC0 Learn how Persona AI is developing a new generation of HUMANOIDS AT WORK™ na2.hubs.ly/H06dSwz0 Automate Show 2026 June 24 | 1:05 PM – 1:35 PM #PersonaAI #HumanoidRobotics #PhysicalAI #IndustrialAutomation #Automation #Manufacturing #Robotics #FutureOfWork #DeepTech #AI

NextRise 2026 in Seoul has concluded. We want to express our appreciation to our hosts and strategic partners, POSCO Group and POSCO DX. Anchoring our corporate footprint inside the POSCO pavilion provided the optimal platform to demonstrate our collaborative roadmap. By unifying Persona’s precision robotics with POSCO’s established industrial infrastructure, we demonstrated to the APAC industrial ecosystem that the deployment of heavy-duty humanoid automation is moving forward. Thank you to the partners, investors, and industry peers who visited our booth, participated in our 1:1 sessions, and registered for future updates. If you were unable to connect with us in Seoul and want to discuss how the Persona AI can optimize your heavy fabrication, shipbuilding, or factory operations, please reach out. Contact our commercial strategy team at [email protected] or visit na2.hubs.ly/H06bsv30 #NextRise #PersonaAI #POSCO #IndustrialRobotics #Automation #GlobalTech #Seoul #StartupInnovation #StrategicAlliances

"Will the robot be the first to go into a confined space to do hot work rather than a human? I think that's a huge advantage." - Nicolaus Radford We are thrilled to share that the special episode of Setting Course, an ABS Podcast, featuring Persona AI CEO Nicolaus Radford, has officially won an AMA Houston Crystal Award! The maritime and heavy industrial sectors face an urgent, structural shortage of capacity for high-risk operations. In this award-winning episode, Nic sits down with Patrick Ryan of the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) to break down why shipyards and offshore platforms are the ultimate frontier for humanoid deployment. To scale automation effectively, groundbreaking AI must be matched with a deep understanding of rugged, real-world maritime environments. Huge congratulations to the ABS marketing and production team on a well-deserved Crystal Award. Listen to the full award-winning episode of Setting Course: na2.hubs.ly/H05Rs1t0 Learn how Persona AI is building a new generation of HUMANOIDS AT WORK™ na2.hubs.ly/H05Rr-J0 #PersonaAI #HumanoidsAtWork #IndustrialRobotics #Automation #HeavyIndustry #FutureOfWork #Maritime #Shipbuilding #ABSPodcast #AMAHouston #CrystalAwards #AdvancedManufacturing #Robotics @ABSeagle