Physical Intelligence opens a beta API for training robot models

Physical Intelligence announced its Pi API beta on October 13, 2026, offering developers managed infrastructure for adapting its robot foundation models. Teams upload demonstrations, fine-tune a model on company-managed compute, then run inference through a hosted gateway.

The company’s examples include Actor’s autonomous wheel loader transferring material into a dump truck and Almond’s dual-arm Axol robot deburring components used in its own assembly. Physical Intelligence says Almond reached that example after four days of iteration with the API. These are company-reported partner demonstrations, rather than independently measured benchmarks of general robotic competence.

The practical promise is a shorter development loop: gather examples, train, test on hardware and collect more data where the robot fails. Most showcased applications used cloud-hosted inference, and the company acknowledges connectivity challenges in some deployments. Beta applicants can describe what they want to build; the announcement does not establish universal availability or publish a standard price. Source: Physical Intelligence.