IFS.ai Unleashed - Boston Dynamics and Siemens on AI's next phase and its infrastructure that doesn't exist yet

The conversation about AI and its influence on industry often centers on software. At the recent IFS.ai Industrial X Unleashed event, two sessions broke that pattern.

Dr. Merry Frayne, Director of Product at Boston Dynamics, and Dr. Sabine Erlinghagen, CEO of Siemens Grid Software, each examined a different corner of industrial transformation, but both landed on the same point – AI is becoming a force in the physical world, not just the digital one. Boston Dynamics' robots are learning to move, perceive, and act in environments built for people. The energy grids that Siemens' software analyzes are being asked to carry demand that rises faster than infrastructure can be built.

Taken together, the two sessions offer a snapshot of how the next era of industrial systems will depend on intelligent physical platforms that gather data, support human decision-making, and prevent failures long before they occur – as well as highlighting the ...