GLOSSARY

Physical AI

Physical AI describes systems that perceive the world, reason about it and take actions through a robot, drone, vehicle or other embodied platform.

Robot operating envelope

Research

Why it is different from software-only AI

Physical actions are constrained by geometry, dynamics, sensing, latency, uncertainty, energy and the behavior of people and other agents.

What evaluation must cover

A meaningful evaluation tests missions, trajectories, state estimates, failures, intervention logic and the operating conditions around the result.

How AIME uses the term

AIME treats Physical AI assurance as a workflow: define the experiment, discover failures, analyze root conditions, verify guardrails and export evidence.