Why Deploying Physical AI at Scale Demands Safety at Every Layer
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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. Physical AI safety means proving that AI-driven machines — AVs, humanoid robots, industrial robots and more — behave safely when their decisions turn into physical action. That requires safety across the hardware, software, AI, operating environment and deployment lifecycle — not a one-time check before deployment. Why Is Safety the Key to Scaling Physical AI? After years of testing and benchmarking, AVs continue to expand commercially. That progress has required developers to demonstrate how automated systems address potential hardware and software failures, limitations in intended functionality and AI-specific risks. Robotics is approaching a similar inflection point as autonomous machines move into factories, warehouses and other environments shared with people.
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