Hardware

Mobile Robot

A mobile robot is a robot capable of moving through its environment rather than being fixed to a single location, encompassing wheeled and tracked ground vehicles, legged robots, aerial drones, and marine platforms. Autonomy stacks for mobile robots center on the perception-localization-planning-control loop, distinguishing them from fixed manipulators whose workspace is static and precisely calibrated.

Why it matters for physical AI

Mobility takes robots out of caged, structured workcells and into warehouses, hospitals, sidewalks, and homes, where dealing with uncontrolled environments and people defines the frontier of deployable autonomy.