Eyes Wide Compute: Why Physical AI Needs Better Senses, Not Bigger Models
Opening — Why this matters now Everyone wants AI in the real world: warehouse robots, smart glasses, autonomous carts, industrial copilots, eldercare devices. Unfortunately, the real world insists on being noisy, dark, shaky, delayed, expensive, and occasionally ridiculous. Most modern AI systems were designed for clean, pre-captured data and abundant compute. Physical AI gets none of those luxuries. A blurry camera frame cannot be reasoned into sharpness by sheer optimism. A dead battery does not care how many parameters your model has. ...