Chapters
The handbook is organized the way a robot program is: understand the field, choose a model, make it safe, deploy it, and stay inside the rules.
- 01
Foundations
What physical AI is, how the stack fits together, and the vocabulary you need.
1 article - 02
Robot Models
Vision-language-action models, world models, and the policies that turn pixels into motion.
1 article - 03
Safety & Risk
Risk assessment, functional safety, and what changes when the controller is a neural network.
1 article - 04
Deployment
Getting robots out of the pilot and into production: sites, integration, operations, cost.
1 article - 05
Hardware
Actuators, hands, sensors, compute and batteries — the body the intelligence has to live in.
1 article - 06
Simulation & Data
Where robot training data comes from: teleoperation, simulation, video, and the sim-to-real gap.
1 article - 07
Standards & Regulation
ISO 10218, the EU Machinery Regulation, the AI Act, and who is liable when something goes wrong.
1 article