India, Oct. 3 -- Artificial intelligence (AI) is moving beyond text, prompts, and copilots into environments where machines have to sense, interpret, and act. That shift changes the architecture behind AI in a fundamental way. In a conversation with PCQuest, Pervinder Johar, Board Member & CEO, Avathon, discussed how physical AI depends less on language and more on operational technology, machine data, knowledge systems, and tightly controlled autonomy.

Most generative AI discussions revolve around large language models (LLMs) and human language. Physical AI works with a different set of signals. Machines communicate through sensors, images, sound, particle detection, time-series data, and other physical inputs. In areas such as explorat...