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Exec @Arm doing Physical AI, strategy and sw dev tools. BOD member @Teradyneinc. Pilot, Open water swimmer with many Alcatraz swims, never bitten by a 🦈
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Embedding AI into robots and vehicles so they operate safely and dependably is one of the most complicated systems engineering challenges we face. Its also essential to unlocking massive productivity gains across the physical industries that together account annually for $75T of global GDP.

This is what the teams designing compute platforms @Arm think about every day. Consider something as seemingly simple as moving a robotic finger. A tiny microcontroller driving an actuator needs to coordinate with sensors measuring motion and force. That finger needs to coordinate with the other fingers, the hand, the arm, and ultimately the entire robot. And all of this needs to happen safely, predictably, and in real time. This is truly fun to work on!

Solving challenges like these is where the Arm ecosystem shines.

I thoroughly enjoyed discussing this with Ani Kelkar at @McKinsey's Physical AI Summit. We covered everything from building SoCs that enable autonomous action to how our Arm Total Design for Physical AI program is helping make this easier. We also discussed our call to action for the industry to come together and establish better ways to describe robotic capabilities by joining the the Robotics Capability Framework working group.

But what I enjoyed even more was hearing from others tackling different parts of this enormous challenge. Carolina Parada at @GoogleDeepMind shared perspectives on building foundation models for robotic intelligence, while Stefan Nusser @IntrinsicAI discussed advances in intelligent automation. Amit Goel discussed the impressive work @NVIDIARobotics is doing in robotics and Quinn Li gave some interesting insights to how @QualcommVenture is thinking about how they invest for PAI.

It's an exciting time to be working across this industry, and there's an extraordinary amount of engineering ahead of us.

More on the Robotics Capability Framework working group: lnkd.in/gtSZA4XT

More on Arm Total Design for Physical AI:
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At the @McKinsey's Physical AI Summit, @drewhenry discussed the compute challenges of scaling physical AI.
 
From real-time performance to safety and efficiency, he shared how Arm's flexible compute platform supports the next generation of intelligent systems.
 
Great discussion on advancing physical AI! 👏
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Bringing the state of the art in robotics to enable people to use prosthetic limbs is an important part of @Arm's physical AI vision. Thanks @BBC for stopping by HQ to hear about what we're working on. youtu.be/uoPjLKEvwKo?si…
www.youtube.com From BBC Tech Now: How the PSYONIC Ability Hand advances prosthetics and robotics with Arm compute In this video from BBC Tech Now, presenter Paul Carter joins PSYONI...
Drew Henry Verified account @drewhenry
As we embody AI in machines that sense, decide and act in the physical world, we need a common language for describing what those machines can actually do.

@Arm is working across the industry to develop a Robotics Capability Framework—a shared foundation for defining, measuring and comparing the capabilities of increasingly intelligent robotic systems.

We invite the robotics ecosystem to join us in shaping it.

arm.com/markets/roboti…
www.arm.com Robotics Capability Framework A common framework for defining robotics capabilities and reducing ecosystem fragmentation.
Drew Henry Verified account @drewhenry
The next frontier for AI is the physical world.

AI that can sense, reason and act safely.

Robots. Vehicles. Drones.

Making that possible changes the requirements for computing dramatically. Likely more complicated than building an AI Factory.

I discussed why @Arm is in the middle of it with @austinsemis from @creativestrat
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🎙️NEW BIT BY BIT EPISODE: @austinsemis sat down with Drew Henry, EVP of Arm's Physical AI unit.

One thought-provoking idea: a humanoid hand may be harder to build than an AI data center.

And another: physical AI could impact productivity even more than you realize.

Why? Global GDP is ~$115T. Roughly ~$70T+ of that is physical (manufacturing, transportation, construction, mining, agriculture). Only ~$40T is digital. And the physical side runs on a tenth of the compute the digital side gets.

Many more insights here:
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