Who to follow on physical AI

The must-follows

Physical AI unfolds on social networks first: researchers publishing results, aggregators compiling demos, journalists checking the numbers. Here are the accounts we follow to build the Atlas, verified one by one (active profile in 2025-2026). Editorial list, no compensation involved.

Jim Fan (Linxi Fan) · X (Twitter)
Co-lead of NVIDIA's GEAR lab (Project GR00T), the most-followed voice on generalist robotics and world models; posts near-daily technical breakdowns and demos (ENPIRE, DreamDojo).

Sergey Levine · X (Twitter)
Co-founder of Physical Intelligence and Berkeley professor, the world reference on RL and robot learning; unveiled the pi-0.7 model in April 2026.

Humanoids Daily · X (Twitter) / Web
Specialized outlet publishing near-daily in-depth analysis (executive departures, funding rounds, benchmarks) on the humanoid industry; the best daily digest of the sector in English.

Evan Ackerman · Bluesky (compte X @BotJunkie inactif depuis)
IEEE Spectrum's robotics editor since 2011, over 6,000 articles published, author of the weekly Video Friday column; the sharpest, least hype-driven technical voice in the field.

LeRobot (Hugging Face) · X (Twitter) / GitHub · ~17 000 abonnés X, Discord de plus de 10 000 membres
Official account of the reference open-source robot-learning project; announces GR00T, Reachy 2, and hardware plugin integrations, and drives the SO-100/SO-101 ecosystem.

Researchers and founders

Karol Hausman · X (Twitter)
CEO and co-founder of Physical Intelligence ($600M raise at a $5.6B valuation, late 2025); announces product breakthroughs live (Recap method / pi*0.6 model, AgiBot partnership).

Ted Xiao · X (Twitter)
Former robotics/Gemini tech lead at Google DeepMind (RT-1, RT-2, SayCan, Gemini Robotics), left DeepMind in late 2025 to join stealth startup Project Prometheus; posts in-depth commentary on industry strategy shifts.

Chris Paxton · X (Twitter)
AI innovation lead at Agility Robotics (ex-Hello Robot, Meta FAIR, NVIDIA), co-hosts the RoboPapers podcast and writes the "It Can Think!" newsletter; grounded, unhyped takes on real-world robot deployment.

Eric Jang · X (Twitter) · ~112 000 abonnés X (source : profile.lessie.ai)
Former VP of AI at 1X Technologies (departed January 2026), co-built the NEO robot and the home-robotics narrative in Silicon Valley; keeps sharing widely-followed personal technical projects (rebuilding AlphaGo for under $10,000).

Pieter Abbeel · X (Twitter)
Berkeley professor (BAIR) and Covariant co-founder (acquired by Amazon in 2024); now leads Amazon's LLM efforts while staying involved in humanoid robotics, former host of The Robot Brains podcast.

Animesh Garg · Site personnel / LinkedIn (pas de compte X public confirmé)
Georgia Tech professor (PAIR Lab) and senior researcher at NVIDIA; his team published COBALT, a smartphone-teleoperation system for crowdsourced robot data collection (May 2026).

Aggregators and newsletters

The Humanoid Hub · X (Twitter)
Curation account dedicated to humanoid demos and news (Xpeng Iron, CMU/NVIDIA's ASAP...), one of the most-followed aggregator accounts in the space.

HumanoidHub (catalogue) · Web / Newsletter
The reference global catalog of humanoid robots (106 robots, 67 manufacturers tracked) with a weekly Thursday newsletter on funding and launches.

Jack Clark (Import AI) · Newsletter (Substack) · lu par plus de 100 000 personnes chaque semaine (source : Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities)
Anthropic co-founder; his weekly Import AI newsletter regularly covers physical robotics, including NVIDIA's ENPIRE and self-improving robots (issue 463, 2026).

Jeffrey Ding (ChinAI Newsletter) · Newsletter (Substack) / X
George Washington University professor, translates Chinese-language AI debates weekly, with issues dedicated to Chinese embodied robotics (e.g. "overhyped embodied AI," April 2026); the reference for understanding China's physical-AI narrative.

SemiAnalysis (Jordan Nanos et al.) · Newsletter / YouTube / Podcast
The world reference on AI chips, publishes deeply technical robotics supply-chain analysis (full teardown of Unitree's bill of materials, margins, China's industrial moat) via its newsletter and SemiAnalysis Weekly podcast.

Journalists and media

Steve Crowe · X (Twitter) / Web
Executive Editor, Robotics at WTWH Media (The Robot Report), chairs the Robotics Summit & Expo and RoboBusiness, co-hosts the weekly Robot Report Podcast.

Eugene Demaitre · Web
Editorial Director of Robotics at WTWH Media, publishes several articles a week on humanoids, industrial automation, and physical AI.

Brianna Wessling · Web
Robotics journalist at The Robot Report, covers major trade shows live (GTC 2026, MODEX) and funding rounds across the humanoid ecosystem.

Brian Heater · Bluesky / LinkedIn
Creator of TechCrunch's Actuator newsletter (2021-2025), now managing editor at A3 (Association for Advancing Automation), building out the North American industry's podcast and robotics coverage.

Julien Bergounhoux · Web (FR)
Journalist at L'Usine Digitale, regularly publishes (several times a month in 2026) on robotics and physical AI in France and internationally.

Video and podcasts

Unitree Robotics (chaîne officielle) · YouTube
Official channel of the sector's most disruptive Chinese manufacturer (G1, H1, R1); near-weekly demonstrations of new capabilities and robotics competitions.

Boston Dynamics (chaîne officielle) · YouTube
The historic reference channel (electric Atlas, Spot); in 2026, shifted toward industrial-task demos rather than spectacle stunts.

Robot Talk (Claire Asher) · Podcast
Weekly podcast hosted by science journalist Claire Asher, accessible interviews with researchers on dexterity, animal-inspired navigation, drones, and defense robotics.

The Robot Report Podcast (Steve Crowe & Mike Oitzman) · Podcast
The industry's reference weekly robotics podcast, trade-show recaps (Automate, GTC, MODEX) and executive interviews.

RoboPapers (Chris Paxton & Michael Cho) · Podcast / YouTube
Podcast hosted by Chris Paxton (Agility Robotics) and Michael Cho, breaking down landmark robotics and embodied-AI research papers.

Open source

Rémi Cadène · X (Twitter) / LinkedIn
Former Tesla Optimus engineer, founder of LeRobot at Hugging Face, left in 2025 to launch UMA, a Paris-based European humanoid-robotics "supergroup" advised by Yann LeCun.

Simon Alibert · GitHub / LinkedIn
Technical co-founder of the LeRobot project at Hugging Face (SO-100/SO-101 infrastructure), joined Rémi Cadène as UMA's CTO in 2026; a reference voice on open-source robotics engineering.

French-speaking voices

Underscore_ (Michaël de Marliave, avec Micode) · YouTube / Podcast (FR)
French AI/hacking/robotics show hosted by Michaël de Marliave (with Micode); hosted Rémi Cadène for a dedicated episode on LeRobot, UMA, and Europe's robotics race.

Justin Carpentier · LinkedIn / Web
Head of the Willow team (Inria/ENS/CNRS), lead developer of reference open-source robotics software (Pinocchio); the most press-cited French academic voice on physical AI (Le Point, La Tribune, L'Usine Nouvelle).

RoboActu · Web (FR)
Independent French-language outlet dedicated to robotics and AI, updated twice daily, with coverage spanning China/Asia, France, Europe, and the US.

Frédéric Boisdron · Blog (FR)
Service-robotics consultant publishing in-depth analysis on industry players (Unitree, Figure, Tesla) with a French industrial and strategic angle.