Physical AI hits the factory floor: reliability, safety standards and energy per task decide scale
ingliguori · x · 2026-11-16
Ingliguori summarizes the state of Physical AI and humanoid robots: world models let AI reason about physical environments with multimodal data, humanoid implementations are crossing commercial thresholds, and China leads in volumes and real-world data collection.
He argues scaling still depends on three bottlenecks: reliability, safety standards, and energy per task.
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