🤖 Building Robots That Actually Work: Embodied AI & Humanoids | Physical AI Awards Panel

When many of the world’s leading physical AI and robotics startups are in the same room, the most important conversations happen face to face.

At the Nebius Robotics & Physical AI Awards & Summit, this live panel cut through the hype to explore what it really takes to build robots that operate in the physical world.

Moderated by Brian Heater (Managing Editor, A3 – Association for Advancing Automation), this discussion dives deep into:
Embodied AI vs. simulation-first approaches
Humanoid robots and real-world manipulation
Data, models, and embodiment challenges
What it takes to move from lab demos to real deployment

👥 Panelists
Jonathan Hurst, Co-Founder & Chief Robot Officer, Agility Robotics
Kevin Black, Researcher, Physical Intelligence
Lindon Gao, Founder & CEO, Dyna Robotics

Missed the event or want more context? Read the full recap here:
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Chapters
00:00 – Opening remarks & why physical AI matters now
02:15 – What “embodied AI” really means (beyond the buzzwords)
06:10 – Humanoid robots: promise vs. practical reality
10:45 – Manipulation, locomotion, and working in unstructured environments
15:30 – Data challenges in the physical world
20:05 – Models, learning, and generalization for real robots
24:40 – From research to deployment: what actually breaks
29:15 – Scaling robotics systems outside the lab
33:50 – Hardware–software co-design in physical AI
38:20 – What’s still missing to make humanoids work at scale
42:30 – Audience Q&A and closing thoughts

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