Why Deploying Physical AI at Scale Demands Safety at Every Layer

Physical AI is moving rapidly from research to large-scale deployment. By 2035, ABI Research projects an installed base of 49 million level 3-5 autonomous vehicles (AVs) , while Omdia estimates that roughly 60 million industrial robots will be deployed between 2026 and 2035 . As these machines enter roads, factories, warehouses and other environments shared with people, safety must scale with them.