chore(main): release 0.2.0

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0.2.0 (2026-09-21)

✨ Features

• add physicalai-lerobot-plugin (#265) (4ec496b)
• add agent skills foundation for runtime workflows (#181) (896c358)
• add first party robot plugins (#263) (41e3ecf)
• add from_config() and usage example (#156) (f479e9e)
• add IP camera support (#230) (9a56188)
• add policy source reset (#237) (64c48bb)
• add runtime.stop() (#226) (cb934cd)
• capture: export config and cut over SharedCamera transport (#205) (04c41ef)
• ci: add release-please (#170) (9937915)
• ci: add fuzzing (#210) (fde3e86)
• config: add core component config engine (#202) (df559c2)
• config: unify Config API and absorb Studio config module (#212) (823f8bc)
• config: use jsonargparse as construction engine (#227) (6d8add9)
• generic robot runtime (#179) (0a3e3ac)
• generic runtime - follow up (#187) (720adda)
• inference: add ov_smoke integration test suite (#207) (5b0b6ea)
• inference: add RLDX-1 OpenVINO preprocessing pipeline and VTC window callback (#257) (e68aa45)
• integrate studio plugin package (#262) (d31aa33)
• load InferenceModel from hf hub (#169) (bcc6212)
• MolmoAct2 processors (#234) (15945cc)
• Replace camera fingerprint string by dictionary with multiple identity (#242) (036edc2)
• robot serve CLI command (#199) (d4af359)
• robot transport via zenoh (#189) (d88ac1a)
• robot: export config and cut over SharedRobot transport (#204) (c8d38d7)
• runtime: wire component config through RobotRuntime and CLI (#206) (f2fc7eb)
• targeted code quality dirs (#236) (c488c52)
• Upgrade pyrealsense2 (#246) (9eaf436)
• XR0 pre-post processing (#256) (f579176)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• add image_key_reorder_map and num_cameras to ResizeSmolVLA (#231) (4229fc0)
• add reorder parameters to SmolVLA preprocessing (#233) (2528309)
• align input type / layouts support across resize preprocessing nodes (#162) (f3ea7e6)
• allow HuggingFace Hub snapshot symlinks (#194) (08fcd96)
• ci: exclude Lob detector from secret scan workflow (#232) (acfaf75)
• config: honor strict=False in Config.from_dict (#253) (8e40217)
• deps: update dependency transformers to >=5.5.0,<5.6.0 [security] (#192) (6decbf5)
• deps: update transformers to >=5.15.1,<5.16.0 (#267) (8ae29a7)
• dotted paths with an empty segment (#223) (e19a2e5)
• enforce ValueError contract on invalid inputs; fix channels-last detection and pixel clamping in resize preprocessors (#217) (3683176)
• harden artifact path containment and input key collision detection (#215) (d691348)
• incorrect InferenceModel inputs with one camera setup (#167) (5848691)
• inference: load callbacks from policy manifests (#273) (c5f6b71)
• inference: support concrete InferenceFeature jsonargparse parsing (#243) (5215b84)
• physicalai studio plugin distribution (#270) (9455de6)
• reject non-finite stats in StatsNormalizer to prevent silent output corruption (#216) (61debd3)
• release workflow (#271) (c0750a3)
• restore canonical Apache 2.0 LICENSE text for GitHub recognition (#219) (ac537a7)
• rldx1: add runtime image resizing with stage-3 geometry controls (#282) (de49e1f)
• Small type fix (#247) (a7ee74d)
• torch inference (#185) (9881601)
• trossen: align WidowX state with recorded policies (#259) (a5e2750)
• twin camera identity race (#211) (3e163cf)
• use correct Apache 2.0 license text (#221) (1be4325)

♻️ Code Refactoring

• rename execution episode_id to incarnation (#238) (9be95d8)
• rename skills to physicalai-runtime-* (#183) (90daa75)
• simplify RTC pipeline (#255) (89a6faf)
• speedup int8 resize (#172) (d3ccc7c)

📚 Documentation

• fix PyPI inference demo with hosted GIF (#287) (fafda32)
• streamline issue templates (#279) (473d436)
• update banner image to include OpenVINO (#154) (b795346)
• update RTC execution defaults and add update docstring (#155) (e3f2828)

🔧 Chores

• add security/trust model and suppress some SAST findings (#254) (5ada732)
• bump lower bound for OpenVINO dependency (#229) (08c5596)
• bump OV version (#283) (cdb6a02)
• ci: add dependency-review-action config (#163) (d4a8655)
• ci: add skills scanners in CI (#190) (a27d824)
• ci: optimize check-paths patterns (#252) (d2085ce)
• clarify Copilot instructions apply to code review (#225) (f5017fb)
• CLI runtime logging (#209) (da65bb9)
• deps: bump tornado from 6.5.6 to 6.5.7 (#165) (ab028df)
• deps: lock file maintenance (#157) (d59a4ba)
• deps: lock file maintenance (#168) (128036b)
• deps: lock file maintenance (#173) (5383bcf)
• deps: lock file maintenance (#182) (64ecaa5)
• deps: lock file maintenance (#188) (045f8d9)
• deps: lock file maintenance (#198) (ea863da)
• deps: lock file maintenance (#201) (0db8782)
• deps: lock file maintenance (#214) (41c6346)
• deps: lock file maintenance (#228) (30f103f)
• deps: lock file maintenance (#240) (43a8754)
• deps: lock file maintenance (#258) (227f7ad)
• deps: lock file maintenance (#284) (2fafa82)
• deps: update github actions (#161) (b671f52)
• deps: update github actions (#178) (918fd14)
• deps: update github actions (#195) (b6821f2)
• deps: update github actions (#213) (c71a581)
• deps: update github actions (#239) (c39fb50)
• deps: update github actions (#248) (fe9f2fd)
• deps: update github actions (#274) (f3e68ba)
• docs: add badges into Readme (#224) (c23ce3c)
• docs: update copilot instructions (#281) (a3f522f)
• fuzzing: increase fuzzing duration (#222) (615c2a0)
• main: release physicalai-bimanual-so101-plugin 0.5.0 (#278) (3746e6b)
• main: release physicalai-lerobot-plugin 0.4.0 (#280) (04f067a)
• main: release physicalai-rebot-b601-plugin 0.7.0 (#277) (3808fe3)
• main: release physicalai-stararm-plugin 0.3.0 (#276) (cc7d11c)
• main: release physicalai-studio-plugin 0.2.0 (#268) (ec35b14)
• main: release physicalai-studio-plugin 0.2.0 (#272) (1d44a4c)

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[samet-akcay]

@AlexanderBarabanov, should we maintain a changelog file? It adds extra maintenance burden in my opinion.

https://github.com/openvinotoolkit/physicalai/releases already has a changelog?

[AlexanderBarabanov]

Changelog will be auto-maintained by release-please action based on merged PR titles, no human intervention is required (in the current PR you can see that changes into changelog is proposed by bot).
In general, we can disable changelog auto-generation with "skip-changelog": true setting.

0.1.0 and 0.1.1 release has been release without release-please action, there is no changelog - I added it manually in the PR that enabled release-please action.

Some additional details are available https://github.com/openvinotoolkit/physicalai/blob/main/RELEASE.md

@samet-akcay

[Copilot]

Copilot review overview

🟢 Approval recommended

The changes are limited to standard release metadata updates, with only a small documentation consistency nit noted in the changelog.

Review effort: Lite
Findings: 1

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• Add Full Changelog link to the 0.2.0 release entry · New

What changed in this PR

This PR performs the root 0.2.0 release cut for Physical AI Runtime by updating the generated release notes and bumping the Release Please manifest version.

Changes:

• Add the 0.2.0 release notes section to CHANGELOG.md.
• Bump the root package version to 0.2.0 in Release Please’s manifest.

File	Description
CHANGELOG.md	Adds the generated 0.2.0 release notes content.
.github/​.release-please-manifest.json	Updates the root manifest version to 0.2.0 for Release Please.

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