Atlas // frontier index
The physical AI frontier index.
What is moving.
What is stuck.
What matters next.
Ten categories, tracked over time. The index carries no scores, ratings or rankings. A number without a published methodology behind it is decoration, so until the methodology and the data exist, every category reads the same honest value.
Status // observing
Signal fields // pending methodology
- RESEARCH ACTIVITY // observing
- MATURITY // observing
- DEPLOYMENT SIGNALS // observing
- OPEN PROBLEMS // observing
01 / category
INTENT
Status // observing
Recovering the outcome a person actually wants.
nodes // HUMAN INTENT
open problems tracked // 2
Dossier 01 // HUMAN INTENT →02 / category
PERCEPTION
Status // observing
Reading a physical scene well enough to act inside it.
nodes // PERCEPTION
open problems tracked // 2
Dossier // not yet opened
03 / category
REASONING
Status // observing
Holding a plan together across time and changing state.
nodes // PLANNING → WORLD UNDERSTANDING
open problems tracked // 2
Dossier 02 // LONG-HORIZON EXECUTION →04 / category
DEXTERITY
Status // observing
Contact-rich manipulation that can be relied upon.
nodes // PHYSICAL EXECUTION
open problems tracked // 3
Dossier 04 // HUMANOID DEXTERITY →05 / category
MOBILITY
Status // observing
Moving people and matter through unstructured space.
nodes // PHYSICAL EXECUTION
open problems tracked // 3
Dossier 05 // AUTONOMOUS MOBILITY →06 / category
COMMERCE
Status // observing
Machines procuring real-world services and goods.
nodes // PAYMENTS → ORCHESTRATION
open problems tracked // 7
Dossier 06 // MACHINE COMMERCE →07 / category
PERMISSION
Status // observing
Delegated authority for a physical action.
nodes // IDENTITY → PERMISSIONS
open problems tracked // 4
Dossier 07 // PERMISSION TO ACT →08 / category
EXECUTION
Status // observing
Coordinating humans, providers and machines to an outcome.
nodes // ORCHESTRATION → PHYSICAL EXECUTION
open problems tracked // 8
Dossier // not yet opened
09 / category
RECOVERY
Status // observing
What the system does when reality diverges.
nodes // FAILURE RECOVERY
open problems tracked // 3
Dossier 03 // FAILURE & RECOVERY →10 / category
VERIFICATION
Status // observing
Proving the physical outcome occurred.
nodes // VERIFICATION
open problems tracked // 2
Dossier // not yet opened
Method // honesty
We do not publish to look intelligent. We publish to understand what needs to exist next.
When maturity and deployment signals are scored here, the methodology will be published alongside them, with every input attributable to a primary source.
Atlas // research chain
- VERIFICATION
The dossiers are not isolated articles. Each one inherits the failure of the stage before it.
// Milan, Italy
// Real World Atlas
// Observation continues