The next wave of AI is moving beyond the screen and into the physical world, onto factory floors, into warehouses, and on roads. Physical AI is one of the fastest-growing frontiers in technology, and the companies building it need infrastructure that can keep up.

Unlike traditional AI, which processes data and generates text on screens, physical AI enables machines to perceive, understand, and act in the real world. Where conventional machines follow fixed instructions and repeat the same task regardless of what’s happening around them, physically intelligent machines sense their environment, reason using cloud-trained AI models, and adapt in real time.

“Physical AI is going to touch every industry that moves, builds, or makes things, and our customers are moving fast to capture that opportunity,” said Uwem Ukpong, vice president, AWS Industries.

How AWS is helping companies build physical AI machines that think