Postcard from MassRobotics: Where Physical AI Meets Startup Speed

Nagesh Puppala, general manager of robotics at Intel, joined the MassRobotics community to dig into the technologies behind that transition, including real-time AI inference, sensor processing, workload consolidation, power efficiency, software portability and edge compute.

Intel's strategy is focused on giving robotics developers an open, scalable foundation for Physical AI, bringing AI inference and real-time control together while supporting open ecosystem. The goal is to help developers build robotics systems that can perceive, reason and act in the real world, and scale those systems across industries and use cases.

But the real story at MassRobotics was the people in the room: entrepreneurs asking hard questions, engineers trading ideas and startups building what's next.

The question is no longer simply whether Physical AI can work. It's how we scale it.

And in Boston, there was no shortage of people ready to build the answer.

Interested in attending a workshop? Register for the next New York workshop here - Physical AI & Robotics Developer Workshop with Intel · Luma

Learn more: intel.com/robotics, Robotics AI Suite, OpenVINO Physical AI