From chatbots to robots: The rise of 'physical AI'

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From chatbots to robots: The rise of 'physical AI' During Nvidia's fourth-quarter earnings call earlier this year, CEO Jensen Huang exclaimed, "The next frontier of AI is physical AI." Huang was referring to a relatively new field that combines artificial intelligence with everything from humanoid robots and industrial machines to cars and even internet of things (IoT) devices. Data from those physical systems is actively fed into the AI's brain — a large language model — after which the technology can make decisions in real time. Read more 9 mins

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