From factory floors to offices: Physical AI is ‘going to be massive’

Good morning. Artificial intelligence is stepping out of the virtual world and into the real one — and that shift is called physical AI.What does that mean? Instead of working only on computers or digital data, it enables machines to sense, think, and act in the real world. Physical AI was a key topic of discussion during a Fortune Brainstorm Tech dinner on Monday at CES 2026 in Las Vegas. Andrew Nusca, editorial director of Fortune‘s Brainstorm series and author of the Fortune Tech newsletter, hosted a fir ...