Embodied AI is moving from labs into homes and public spaces. As deployments accelerate, challenges in data collection, methodology, and governance are becoming urgent. This panel convenes leaders in robotics, policy, and AI research to examine how advances in hardware, simulation, and learning models are redefining humanoid intelligence and what standards and safeguards are needed for widescale adoption.

Artificial intelligence has spent years proving itself in the digital world — optimising algorithms, generating content, predicting behaviour. The next frontier is far more unforgiving: the physical one. FieldAI is building AI that operates where the stakes are highest — construction sites, manufacturing floors, data centres, and disaster zones — environments that are dull, dirty, and dangerous, where GPS fails, maps don't exist, and waiting for human instruction is not an option. In this fireside chat, Dr Shayegan Omidshafiei takes us inside the science and strategy of autonomous physical intelligence. With hundreds of mission deployments across three continents and backing from some of the world's most consequential investors, FieldAI offers a rare and compelling glimpse into what happens when AI stops talking and starts doing.