Robotics foundation models, world models, task planning — naming for the software brain of the next hardware wave.
Embodied AI is the software category sitting one layer above humanoid robotics: foundation models trained on physical interaction, world models for planning, and cognition stacks that turn perception into action. Physical Intelligence (π), Skild AI, World Labs, and a wave of stealth labs are pricing the category in 2026.
These names are positioned for the model layer, not the hardware layer — cognition, planning, world-model, and task-orchestration companies. The naming rules are the same as frontier AI: short, phonetically native, brand-grade.
Related collections: [humanoid robotics](/i/humanoid-robotics-domains), [AI agents](/i/ai-agents-domains), [applied AI](/i/applied-ai-domains). Every name transfers via Afternic escrow.