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Physical AI Is Coming, Just Not on the Timeline You Think

Serve Robotics Autonomous Delivery Update August 18, 2026

Recently, I sat down with 🤖 Ali Kashani, Ph.D., CEO and Co-Founder of Serve Robotics, to discuss what he has learned from building and scaling autonomous delivery robots in the real world.

Why this matters for talent

Founder commentary about timelines is worth reading as a hiring signal, not just a hot take. When a CEO publicly pushes back on the fast version of physical AI, it usually means the internal plan favors steady deployment engineering over speculative research headcount. For candidates that translates to more fleet ops, hardware reliability, and field engineering roles than pure ML research. Serve Robotics has a few dozen openings on the mobility board.

99 likes · 20 comments · 10 shares · Read the original LinkedIn post · full article. Curated by Larry Sherwood Jr. from company announcements; analysis above is my own.

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