Physical AI Field Notes from Actuate 2026

A specialized technology stack is beginning to form around Physical AI. At Actuate 2026, developers got a close look at its emerging data, simulation, training, observability, compute and teleoperation layers, offering a glimpse of an ecosystem being assembled in real time.

The New Mandate for Global Consulting Leaders: Physical AI

The firms that rewired the digital world now aim to transform the physical one. And just as they did with digital transformation, the consulting giants are positioning themselves to support this next era of enterprise reinvention.

Physical AI Will Devour Yesterday’s Jargon

Physical AI is a developing, self-defining segment that will be inescapable in 2026 and I can’t get enough of it. Let’s hope we come to a consensus about what it is, who the players are, and where the ecosystems are forming.