2026 will be the year of physical AI, the integration of intelligence into real-world systems like robotics and industrial automation.
We’ve already seen significant advancements in robotics which would not have been possible without integrating large real-world datasets and VLA models into these machines. Which essentially translate vision and language understanding into seamless continuous control.
The coherent action sequences of the robots in the video below are just a tip of what to expect as physical AI becomes more prevalent.