In this week's What We're Watching, Sachin & Adam head inside Physical Intelligence's San Francisco lab to see what $5.6 billion buys you in the race to build a general-purpose "brain" for robots. They watch the company's machines fumble and improve in real time on tasks that sound trivial—folding laundry, making coffee, peeling produce—and sit down with co-founder Lachy Groom and Thrive Capital investor Philip Clark to talk about why those everyday chores have been so hard for robots to crack, and what the next few years look like. If you want an unscripted look at the lab behind the buzziest name in robot AI right now, this one's worth your time.

I thought these robots looked familiar when I watched the video. That's because I covered Physical Intelligence back in 2024, when it was a much newer startup training its first foundation model, π0, and I was skeptical that a robot maid was anywhere close to reality. Two years and a jump from roughly $2 billion to $5.6 billion later, the robots are still folding laundry. Whether they're folding it well is a different question, and this video answers it fairly honestly.