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Physical AI

When learning meets reality. How embodied intelligence differs from digital, and why the physical world grounds understanding.

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Jan 19, 2026
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This is Chapter 14 of A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence.

“It is comparatively easy to make computers exhibit adult-level performance on intelligence tests or playing checkers, and difficult or impossible to give them the skills of a one-year-old when it comes to perception and mobility.” — Hans Moravec, Mind Children (1988)

In a warehouse in Frem…

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