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Embodied AI: Making the Physical World Accessible to AI

AI is moving beyond screens, browsers, and chat interfaces.

The next frontier is physical: robots, agents, drones, sensors, vehicles, and intelligent devices operating in the real world.

As AI gains a body, the core question becomes urgent:

How do we make the physical world accessible to AI?

The Intercognitive Foundation was created to help answer that question. We believe embodied AI will require more than better robots or larger models. It will require shared infrastructure: standards, identity, maps, positioning, sensors, compute, coordination, and interoperability.

At this MACHINA Summit side event in Paris, we will bring together builders, investors, researchers, and ecosystem leaders working on the foundations of Physical AI.

Together, we will discuss the key questions shaping the next phase of embodied AI:

How should AI systems understand and navigate physical environments?

What standards will be needed for machines, agents, sensors, and infrastructure to interoperate?

How can identity, trust, positioning, compute, and coordination become shared layers rather than closed silos?

What kinds of applications become possible as the physical world becomes more machine-readable?

And how can builders, researchers, investors, and ecosystem leaders coordinate before the market hardens around incompatible defaults?

This is a gathering for the people building the next machine-readable layer of the world.

Join us in Paris, at the aptly named 5 Parvis Alan Turing, to discuss the standards, partnerships, and infrastructure that will define the Embodied AI era.