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Is Physical AI a Rebranded Internet of Things?

A Wall Street Journal piece asks whether 'physical AI' — the push to give artificial intelligence a body in robots, sensors and connected machines — is genuinely new or just the Internet of Things under a fresh name. The article weighs the hype around embodied AI against earlier smart-device promises, questioning whether current technology delivers more than connected hardware already did.

Why now: Companies and investors are heavily promoting 'physical AI', prompting debate over whether it is a real technological shift or marketing relabeling of existing IoT concepts.

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