Software intelligence is increasingly meeting hardware. Humanoid and general-purpose robots — trained with the same large-model techniques powering chatbots — are scaling from labs and warehouses toward broader pilots.
2027 is a pivotal proving year: can robots reliably generalise across messy, real-world tasks, or do they stay narrow specialists a while longer? The answer shapes everything from manufacturing to elder care.
Why it matters: Embodied AI is the bridge between digital intelligence and the physical economy — and 2027 is when the first credible at-scale deployments are expected.