The Deep Mind: Robots prepare for their ‘ChatGPT moment’

Posted on January 8, 2026 by michelleclarke2015
 
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Jensen Huang has heart eyes for robots. 

Physical AI was an Nvidia headliner at CES, with the CEO claiming in his Monday keynote that the industry is in a “ChatGPT moment for physical AI.” Huang reiterated his bullishness for AI’s real-world applications in a press briefing on Tuesday, noting that the speed of development could lead to robots with human-level capabilities as soon as “next year.” Robotics in particular face some significant challenges, Huang said, including locomotion, grasping and fine motor skills. However, a lot of developers have turned their attention to overcoming those issues, he said.

Meanwhile, “cognition,” or the models’ capabilities themselves, are improving rapidly. “I know how fast the technology is moving,” said Huang. “I think that the next several years [are] going to be really exciting.” And of course, Nvidia’s CES news was packed with physical AI-related announcements, including: The new Alpamayo autonomous vehicle reasoning model, several Cosmos reasoning world models, and a new Vision-Language-Action model from its GR00T humanoid robotics model family. 

And physical AI was all over CES, from industrial manufacturing and healthcare to delivery robots and children’s toys. AI firms are eager to take their models from the digital domain to the real world. But actual adoption is going to depend largely on how tolerant users are to mistakes, Anuj Bahal, Global Lead Account Partner at KPMG, told The Deep View. The impacts of a chatbot hallucinating are constrained to screens, but physical AI can make physical mistakes. And though it’s easier for us to accept when a human drops a plate or gets into a fender bender, we have less tolerance for when a robot messes up in the same way, said Bahal. “[But] we all know the technology is not going to be perfect,” he added. People also must become comfortable with robots doing some things better than them. Huang, however, refuted the idea that robots would replace human workers: “Robots will create jobs … the robotics revolution is going to… replace the job loss, the labor loss, it’s going to therefore drive up the economy.”For most consumers, AI presents a looming, existential threat, with the “AI is going to take my job” or “the robots are going to take over” rhetoric permeating people’s psyches. But today, this threat is a phantom, since AI exists largely as chatbots and software. Physical AI, whether self-driving cars or delivery bots or humanoid robotics, gives that fear a body. This makes the threat of change more visceral, forcing people to confront the future. That could be an uncomfortable experience for many people. Nat Rubio-Licht
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Life event that changes all: Horse riding accident in Zimbabwe in 1993, a fractured skull et al including bipolar anxiety, chronic fatigue …. co-morbidities (Nietzche 'He who has the reason why can deal with any how' details my health history from 1993 to date). 17th 2017 August operation for breast cancer (no indications just an appointment came from BreastCheck through the Post). Trinity College Dublin Business Economics and Social Studies (but no degree) 1997-2003; UCD 1997/1998 night classes) essays, projects, writings. Trinity Horizon Programme 1997/98 (Centre for Women Studies Trinity College Dublin/St. Patrick's Foundation (Professor McKeon) EU Horizon funded: research study of 15 women (I was one of this group and it became the cornerstone of my journey to now 2017) over 9 mth period diagnosed with depression and their reintegration into society, with special emphasis on work, arts, further education; Notes from time at Trinity Horizon Project 1997/98; Articles written for Irishhealth.com 2003/2004; St Patricks Foundation monthly lecture notes for a specific period in time; Selection of Poetry including poems written by people I know; Quotations 1998-2017; other writings mainly with theme of social justice under the heading Citizen Journalism Ireland. Letters written to friends about life in Zimbabwe; Family history including Michael Comyn KC, my grandfather, my grandmother's family, the O'Donnellan ffrench Blake-Forsters; Moral wrong: An acrimonious divorce but the real injustice was the Catholic Church granting an annulment – you can read it and make your own judgment, I have mine. Topics I have written about include annual Brain Awareness week, Mashonaland Irish Associataion in Zimbabwe, Suicide (a life sentence to those left behind); Nostalgia: Tara Hill, Co. Meath.
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