Contributors Lead Authors Devendra Jain Lead, Frontier Technologies for Operations, World Economic Forum Federico Torti Lead, Advanced Manufacturing and Supply Chain, World Economic Forum Theresa Sophie Wolf Project Fellow, Next Frontier of Operations, World Economic Forum; Consultant, Boston Consulting Group Acknowledgements World Economic Forum Maria Alonso Lead, Autonomous Systems Memia Fendri Content Curation and Operational Excellence Lead, Advanced Manufacturing and Supply Chains Vügar Kerimoğlu Project Fellow, The Global Lighthouse Network, World Economic Forum; Head of New Generation Manufacturing Technologies, Beko Corporate group company of Koc Holding Jasmeet Khurana Lead, Climate Technology Expert Group Basmah AlBuhairan Managing Director, Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, Saudi Arabia Meshal Almashari Head of Digital Design and Delivery, Aramco Pierluigi Astorino Chief Operating Officer, Ariston Group James Atkin Chief Strategy Officer, Gecko Robotics Berk Birand Chief Executive Officer, Fero LabsFrank Bleisteiner Vice-President Production Engineering, Siemens Klaus Blüm Vice-President, Group IT Products and Architecture, Volkswagen Aref Boualwan Chief Initiative and Start-Up Officer, Consolidated Contractors Company (CCC) Tye Brady Chief Technologist, Amazon Robotics Tilman Buchner Partner and Director, Digital Operations, Boston Consulting Group Michelangelo Canzoneri Global Head, Group Smart Manufacturing, Merck Aleksander Ciszek Chief Executive Officer, 3YOURMIND Jason Clark Global Vice-President of Manufacturing, Exiger Haldun Dingec Director, Production Technologies, ARCELIK Christoph Dorigatti Vice-President, Global Business Development, COPA-DATA Lauren Dunford Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Guidewheel Physical AI: Powering the New Age of Industrial Operations 22

Physical AI Powering the New Age of Industrial Operations 2025