Recent AI models are surprisingly humanlike in their ability to generate text, audio, and video when prompted. This is what I call “physical intelligence”, a new form of intelligent machine that can understand dynamic environments, cope with unpredictability, and make decisions in real time. Unlike the models used by standard AI, physical intelligence is rooted in physics; in understanding the …
On a metallic door in San Francisco’s Mission District, a single character—“π”—offers a cryptic clue as to the virtuous circle of labor taking place beyond. The warehouse is home of Physical Intelligence, also known as PI or π, a startup that aims to give robots a profound artificial intelligence upgrade. “And if we really crack this problem, then AI will …
The idea of a robot that does a wide range of household chores, from unloading the dryer to folding laundry to cleaning up a messy table, has long seemed like pure science fiction—perhaps most famously embodied by the 1960s fantasy that was Rosey in The Jetsons. Physical Intelligence, a startup in San Francisco, has shown that such a dream might …
