‘Physical AI is Europe’s last chance to be useful to the world’
THE SO WHAT
If Europe treats ‘physical AI’ as a thesis, not a slogan, it has a path to compound its strengths in manufacturing, regulation, and safety into exportable systems. Operators in EU industry should be mapping where autonomy at the edge can be bundled with existing hardware and logistics footprints before US and Chinese vendors set the standards.
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