Exfinity says Physical AI shifts robotics toward adaptive autonomy as vision-language models and world models mature

• Exfinity Venture Partners published a market thesis arguing “Physical AI” is pushing robotics beyond deterministic automation into adaptive autonomy.
• It flagged vision-language models, multimodal reasoning, world models as key enablers for scaling robots beyond single-task factory deployments.
• The report identified manipulation and dexterity as the main capability gap, favoring vertical robots in narrow, high-value domains near term.
• Exfinity outlined a six-layer stack spanning hardware, foundation models, real-time control, autonomy tooling, robots, simulation as a validation layer.
• It positioned India as well-placed to build the sector, citing 2.3 million STEM graduates in 2025 versus 0.8 million in the US.

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