When AI Leaves the Screen: Will We Need a Worker, a Caregiver, or a Companion First?
China is turning factories into schools for robots. Tesla is betting on general-purpose labour. But Physical AI’s most urgent value may be filling the gap left by a simple human limitation: no one can always be there. Sinclair This is not an abstract technology question for me. Over the past six months, my mother, who is in her nineties, has fallen several times at home. My sister and brother-in-law care for her, and we take her back to the hospital for regular checkups. The family is doing a great deal. But no one can stand beside another person twenty-four hours a day. ...