Imagination in Action's MIT Physical AI Summit runs October 30, 2026, at the MIT Media Lab, convened jointly with MassRobotics and TEDxMIT as part of Tough Tech Week 2026. The summit focuses specifically on physical AI, systems that control robots and other real-world hardware, through workshops and live demonstrations rather than keynote-only programming.
The Imagination in Action series has held events at Davos, MIT, and Boston Tech Week throughout 2026, assembling speakers ranging from Salesforce's Marc Benioff to MIT's Max Tegmark; the physical AI-specific edition reflects how much investor and research attention has shifted toward embodied AI as a distinct category from software-only generative AI in 2026.