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



