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Carina Kaeser

Carina Kaeser

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Carina Kaeser is a robotics engineer and Co-Founder & CEO of Ply, building safety and assurance infrastructure for Physical AI. Her background spans robotics research, system design and product development across ETH Zurich, EPFL and Harvard, and her work received the ICRA 2025 Best Mechanism & Design Award. She currently focuses on one of the hardest challenges in the field: how collaborative robot functionality can be developed and deployed with meaningful safety and security assurances.

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    Panel 6 - Physical AI: Humanoids, Robot Fleets & Europe's Hardware Gap

    Tuesday 22 September, 14:00 – 14:40Panel Stage

    Physical AI is 2026's breakout story: humanoids leaving the lab, LLM-driven robot fleets, and a hardware race Europe is losing to China. Can the EU build, not just regulate?

    With Natalia Olson-Urtecho, Arno Strotgen, Carl Strathearn, Gabriel Mesquida Masana

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