Why Physical AI needs better hardware, not just better models

Jennifer Kwiatkowski
Artificial intelligence is moving fast. Large language models can write emails, summarize reports, and generate software code in seconds. But when AI leaves the digital world and enters the physical one, progress slows down dramatically. Why? Because interacting with the real world is much harder than processing text or images. Robots don’t just need intelligence; they need reliable ways to touch, grasp, push, and manipulate objects . This is where physical AI enters the picture. And it reveals