# Physical Machine Autonomy **Entity class:** Robotics concept **Domain:** Robotics / Artificial intelligence **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition Physical machine autonomy is the capacity of an embodied system to perceive, decide, and act in the material world with reduced moment-to-moment human control. ## Mechanism and significance It requires not only models but sensing, actuation, energy, localization, fault recovery, permissions, and behavior under conditions absent from training. ## Relationships - **Research dossier:** [[research/ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots|ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots]] - **Ontology route:** [[ASI and RSI Timeline Ontology#Physical Intelligence and Scientific Infrastructure|Physical Intelligence and Scientific Infrastructure]] - **Primary fields:** [[Physical AI]] · [[AI Infrastructure]] · [[AI Superpower]] - **Adjacent concepts:** [[Astra]] · [[Robotic Armature]] · [[Novel Materials Discovery]] · [[Atom Creation]] ## Sources and provenance - [[research/ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots|ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots]] — immediate source for this node's role in the broadcast research map. ## Evidence boundary The research dossier establishes why this entity or concept belongs in the Moonshots ontology. Time-sensitive organizational, product, policy, and performance claims should be checked against the linked primary source or a current authoritative source before reuse as settled fact.