The physical AI race will be won in the patent office

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The post The physical AI race will be won in the patent office appeared first on The Robot Report . Patent protection is important for robotics startups, but they should be strategic in determining what IP is important, says Lightbringer.

Lightbringer’s co-founders and board members, from left: CTO Markus Andreasson, CEO Dominic Davies, and CCO Ola Wassvik. Source: Lightbringer Developments in AI, machine learning, and automation have given robots capabilities that would have seemed extraordinary a decade ago.

This is a particularly complex intellectual property (IP) landscape because those innovations can span hardware, software , AI models, and calibration methods. The most valuable invention may not be the robot itself, but the technology that enables it to behave in a particular way.