Issue Physical AI is argued entirely from productivity, with warehouses standing in for the whole domain

Summary

Gartner makes its case for physical AI almost entirely through productivity, arguing that organisations want the benefits of digital AI extended to physical settings. The chapter does not address what sets a machine acting in the world apart from a model producing text. Risks of physical harm, questions of liability, certification requirements and the displacement of manual labour are all absent. At the same time, a single warehouse statistic is used to support a trend meant to span robots, drones, cars and smart devices. The issue is whether such a narrow argument is sufficient for a technology with far wider consequences.