A Forbes opinion article says physical AI is already in robotaxis, freight and warehouses. It cites Waymo’s roughly 500,000 paid rides a week and Amazon’s more than 1 million warehouse robots, arguing that businesses must redesign work to benefit.
Waymo is aiming to reach 1 million paid rides a week by year-end. The article says Amazon’s in-house AI model coordinates its warehouse robots and cut their travel time by 10%. It argues physical AI will advance industry by industry because each factory, warehouse and road differs, leaving no equivalent of the internet’s vast text corpus; companies can gain an edge from operational data showing what experts accept, correct or reject.
The article recommends assigning a named person responsibility for a machine’s outcomes, giving machines traceable identities and proving each process against a customer result before scaling. It cites Aurora’s McLane freight pilot, which used safety drivers from 2023 before removing the driver on the Dallas–Houston route. Amazon’s Shreveport center targets a 25% lower cost to serve at peak and, the article says, needs 30% more staff in reliability, maintenance and engineering.
