Seizing the AI advantage through physical, humanoid robotics

by Tim Ensor | Oct 2, 2025

The next wave of AI will be physical. We’re right at the start of this transition – but organisations who engage now stand to seize the AI advantage. That’s the firm belief of CC’s Tim Ensor, who captivated his audience at Cambridge Tech Week 2025 with a tantalising glimpse of the leap towards the ‘artificial common sense’ of physical AI and humanoid robots.

Physical AI is rising to prominence as the next step on from perception AI, generative AI and agentic AI. Driven by a bold, deep tech strategic approach, it represents a new way to win commercially. It will have profound implications for human/AI interaction, because it allows AI to understand, and enter into, the physical world. Combined with advances in the hardware of batteries, motors and sensors, physical AI is unleashing extraordinary progress in humanoid robots. In the video, Tim reveals insider secrets of the robotics stack for intelligent humanoids…

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