A Polish-founded robot that drives screws faster than humans

For years the conventional wisdom held that AI would automate knowledge work but physical work was safe because it requires fine motor skills, adaptation to unpredictable conditions, and “common sense” that machines don’t have. Those arguments are looking less convincing by the month. A Physical Intelligence robot drives an M3 screw with sub-millimeter precision after 15 minutes of learning. It folds laundry it has never seen before. It cleans a kitchen it has never been in. It does all this across different robotic platforms because its “intelligence” isn’t tied to a specific mechanical body but lives in a model you can install on any arm. We’re no longer building robots for single tasks on a production line. We’re building something closer to universal physical intelligence, and a guy from a small Polish town is one of the people making it happen. At the current pace of progress, I suspect that a year from now we’ll wonder why we ever doubted machines could do this.