Schmidhuber Revives 10-Year-Old Thesis: Physical AI Is Germany's Chance to Reinvent Itself
SchmidhuberAI · x · 2026-10-17
Schmidhuber amplifies investor Christian Miele's argument that software was never Germany's superpower—hardware is—and the Physical AI era is Germany's opportunity to reinvent itself. A reply notes Schmidhuber told Germany's FAZ ten years ago to fuse its engineering, plant-building and industrial automation skills with AI and go all-in on IoT.
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