Gecko CEO: Physical AI Needs Humans in Control
THE SO WHAT
Gecko and Nvidia pushing an open agent safety platform for robots is a bid to standardize ‘guardrails for the physical world’ before incidents force ad hoc fixes. If you’re deploying autonomous systems, budget now for safety orchestration layers, not just perception and control stacks.
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