The Scaling Laws of Physical Intelligence

Robotics is entering a new phase. VLA models, embodied reasoning, world models, teleoperation-scale data collection, simulation, RL, and humanoid platforms are all advancing at once. The question is no longer whether foundation models will matter for robotics; it is whether robotics is approaching its own GPT moment. The analogy, however, is imperfect. Unlike language, the physical world is expensive to sample, hard to evaluate, and unforgiving when models fail. Robots need more than semantic understanding: they need 3D perception, physical causality, force awareness, proprioception, closed-loop correction, and the ability to improve safely through real-world experience. Join Savant and Tola Capital for an evening with these guest speakers: YG Yuan , Co-founder and CEO of MaxInsights Andrew Dai , Co-founder and CEO, Elorian AI & former Director of Research, Google DeepMind Peide Huang , Research Scientist, Google DeepMind Ashis Ghosh , Founding Robotics Engineer at The Bot Company and Venture Partner at Savant, will moderate the panel discussion. We will cover what needs to happen…