PrismaX News

Robotics Data is open in limited release!

Usable, diverse, proven demonstrations for the teams building physical AI. Teleoperation and egocentric episodes, reviewed to one standard, growing every month.

Explore the data and request access: https://prismax.ai/#plans

Doesn't Grasp, Episode 2 is live.

Austin Brown designs motors at Boston Dynamics. He also owns a hydroelectric dam he bought off Facebook Marketplace.

Bayley talks with him about heat, the constraint that binds long before anything else does. Why saturation is a red herring. Why axial flux motors cannot be cooled. Why every viable humanoid is child-sized, and why that is on purpose.

🎧 Why Robots Overheat, with Austin Brown of Boston Dynamics: https://youtu.be/zis8LOkVV2A?si=6Y21v454e-PstQJZ

Missed episode 1? Dane Kouttron on why robotics is bottlenecked on force, not models: https://youtu.be/wyVHwKQbdPo?si=y4nIV61IFDwRzRl_

The First 100 is live.

Verify Quality just opened to the public on PrismaX. Score the data robots learn from, earn points, and compete to become one of The First 100.

Better data, better models. The standard starts with you.

Start scoring 👉 app.prismax.ai

Here's your first look at Verify Quality.

Tomorrow it opens to everyone. Score the data robots learn from, earn points, and compete to become one of The First 100.

Live Tuesday, June 23, 9:00 AM PDT. The standard starts with you.

The standard starts with you.

Tomorrow, Verify Quality opens to the public for the first time. Score the data robots learn from, earn points, and compete to become one of The First 100.

Live Tuesday, June 23, 9:00 AM PDT.

New from PrismaX: the first edition of our monthly memo is live.

Bayley on what actually changed in robotics this past year: hardware supply chains, video vs. teleop, the second wave of physical AI companies, and data becoming a real business. About a 10-minute read, broad field view.

Read + subscribe 👉 prismaxai.substack.com/p/a-year-of-robotics-in-10-minutes

Robots & Rollups recap🍸🤖

This week we hosted during a16z #NYTechWeek. A packed room of robotics, AI, and crypto founders, researchers, investors, and builders.

The teleop challenge ran all night. Our robot dog roamed the room. Sharp conversations on where physical AI is actually heading. The NY ecosystem showed up!

Thank you to everyone who came. More events ahead.

Subscribe to our Luma calendar to stay updated on future PrismaX events: https://luma.com/prismax

NY Tech Week is here and Robots & Rollups is TONIGHT!

What's in the room:
🤖 Live teleoperation challenges
🤖 Robot dogs roaming the space (bring yours)
🤖 Custom cocktails & light bites
🤖 Founders, researchers, investors, and builders working across physical AI and frontier tech

If you're in town, we'd love to see you later.

RSVP ⤵️
https://partiful.com/e/GxfjRxDRUK8wgxH6UMG6?c=UekYpgv4

Doesn't Grasp is live!

A new monthly podcast on what's actually happening in robotics and physical AI. Sponsored by PrismaX🦾

Hosted by Bayley Wang, cofounder and CEO of PrismaX, the show sits down with researchers and operators building the field from the inside. Technical, unscripted. The conversations you can't get from viral tweets.

Episode 1: Painting Robots, Force, and the Industrial Graveyard with Dane Kouttron.
◾Painting as a force-control benchmark
◾Why visual language models still run at sub-240p
◾The graveyard of cheap industrial robots waiting to be reused
◾What it would take to put a six-axis Kuka on a residential garbage truck

Listen now 🎧
YouTube: https://youtu.be/wyVHwKQbdPo
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1FZxjNsel0JnfP9QNl0lIZ
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/painting-robots-force-and-the-industrial-graveyard/id1896789450?i=1000768956834

🍸🤖 NYC — we’re hosting a happy hour during a16z #NYTechWeek!

Introducing: Robots & Rollups

Hosted by PrismaX, this is a curated evening bringing together founders, researchers, engineers, investors, and frontier builders exploring the future of physical AI.

We’re especially excited for this one as an a16z-backed company participating in NY Tech Week alongside so many incredible teams across the ecosystem.

This is the only #NYTechWeek event bringing physical AI and crypto under one roof.

RSVP here 👉https://partiful.com/e/GxfjRxDRUK8wgxH6UMG6?c=7e0U9HWi

The PrismaX Regional Ambassador Program is LIVE 🦾

Today, PrismaX is opening applications for our Regional Ambassador Program. A select cohort of regional leaders will help grow local PrismaX communities in their language, region, and time zone.

The PrismaX community now spans 1.4M+ members globally, with 50,000+ in Discord. Conversations are already happening in dozens of languages, across regions we don't post in directly. The Ambassador Program gives that leadership a name and a structure.

Apply today 👉 https://forms.gle/3Hfo8yEEKsGLeobn9
Read the full announcement 👉 https://x.com/PrismaXai/status/2054224805713342589?s=20

It's HACKATHON season 🦾

We’re sponsoring BETA Hackathon 2026! This is an 8-hour, builder-first sprint bringing together 200+ developers, researchers, and entrepreneurs from across the Bay Area.

Teams will build and ship across four tracks:
▪️ AI-native applications and agentic workflows
▪️ Voice and vision systems
▪️ Robotics and embodied AI
▪️ Crypto and agent-based coordination

The event will also feature keynotes, workshops, live demos, and $10K+ in prizes.

See you there ⤵️
https://luma.com/BETAhackathon

It’s time to build! We’re excited to support RoboHacks at Y Combinator this weekend.

36 hours. 25 robots. 120 hackers. $15K+ in prizes.

We’re proud to be in the room alongside teams from Google DeepMind, NASA, Scale AI, ElevenLabs, and others pushing the boundaries of physical AI.

Looking forward to seeing what gets built!

RSVP 👉 https://luma.com/robohacks-at-YC

Q1 Product Updates

We shipped a number of product updates across PrismaX in Q1 2026, focused on improving reliability, clarity, and day-to-day operation.

This includes:
🦾 Infrastructure upgrades across multi-chain support, performance, and security
🦾 Improvements to the teleoperation experience, including queue visibility and session reliability
🦾 A restructured Robot Control Center with new arms and clearer access logic
🦾 Account updates to support identity and coordination across operators

Together, these updates improve system consistency, reduce friction in teleoperation workflows, and increase overall platform capacity.

Read the full update 👉 https://www.prismax.ai/blog/prismax-product-updates-q1-2026

Watch the highlights and learn more about RoboCon:
https://www.robot-conference.com/

More soon 👀

Last month, we hosted RoboCon @ ETHDenver and brought robotics directly onto the floor. Attendees didn’t just see robots, they operated them.

We also ran our first live teleoperation competition:
• Dozens of operators
• Real robotic arms
• Real-time control
• $1,000 prize pool

This is the shift we’re focused on. Moving from demos to real interaction with physical systems.

We’re excited to share that PrismaX is now part of the NVIDIA Inception Program.

NVIDIA has built the foundation for modern AI, from compute to the tooling and infrastructure behind today’s most advanced systems.

As physical AI moves into real-world deployment, progress is increasingly defined by how robots operate, interact, and learn in real environments.

We’re excited to build on this as we scale real-world robotics systems and the data that powers physical AI.

Read more ➡️ https://www.prismax.ai/blog/prismax-joins-nvidia-inception-program

📅 Subscribe to our calendar so you don't miss a PrismaX event: https://luma.com/prismax

Where is real progress in robotics actually coming from right now?

Last night at Stanford, we hosted The Physical AI & Robotics Salon during NVIDIA GTC, a highly technical evening focused on the systems behind physical AI.

Here’s what we covered:

🤖 The Hardware Behind the Hype 🤖
Why actuator design is foundational, what actually makes a “better” actuator, and how factors like reflected inertia impact control, responsiveness, and overall system capability.

🦾 The Humanoid Frontier 🦾
Why humanoids are gaining popularity, how hardware decisions affect data collection and training, and what matters when integrating vision systems.

Across both sessions, a clear theme emerged: hardware, data, and models are deeply interconnected.

Both panels ended with Q&A, with thoughtful and technical questions from the audience.

We also had live demos and a side-by-side look at a decade of robotics progress.

Thank you to everyone who joined us!