2026 will be the year when artificial intelligence will leave the screens and make an impact in the real world, many say. “Physical AI” is considered a megatrend of the near future. It combines artificial intelligence and embodiment, or as they say in the industry: embodiment.
The new type of AI sits in a body, a machine, and combines perception, for example via camera, lidar, sensors or microphone, with autonomous decisions, using machine or deep learning, and subsequent actions. Grip, drive, steer.
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Unlike pure software AI in the form of, for example, chatbots iPhysical AI interacts directly with the real world.
Until now, the machines had always been reprogrammed
Not that it doesn't exist yet – it just seems newer to us in Germany than elsewhere. Physical AI is already in humanoids or industrial robots, in unmanned drones and in autonomous cars. “If you call a taxi in San Francisco or Beijing, there’s a very good chance that there won’t be a driver in it and it won’t be remotely controlled either.” And you are already dealing with Physical AI up close.
Source: https://www.businessinsider.de/gruenderszene/technologie/physical-ai-was-sich-hinter-dem-megatrend-2026-genau-verbirgt/
