AI-1274 - USA (Virginia) - AI Service for Physical Systems Topic Announcement - Deadline January 7,2027

(1) Vendor needs to provide AI service for physical systems topic announcement. • Agency seeks innovative, early–stage platform technologies that advance intelligent, adaptive, and scalable AI systems operating in or interfacing with the physical world, including robotics, embodied systems, human robot interfaces, advanced sensing, and cyber physical systems.• Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Physical Systems Topic and provides a quick screening checklist for applicants.• Physical AI definition: Intelligent, adaptive, scalable AI systems embodied in or interfacing with the physical world, which may include (but not be limited to): robots and cyber–physical systems; implantable, ingestible, or wearable AI devices; neural or bio–integrated platforms; and built–environment/infrastructure–scale systems.• Safety, responsible autonomy, and compliance: Human–robot interaction or embodied AI in or around humans that do not consider issues such as security, failure–mode analysis, benchtop/sandbox testing, independent oversight, reliability considerations, etc• Narrow device–layer add–ons, instrumentation, User Interface (UI) or dashboards, teleoperation apps, single–sensor improvements, or generic wearables that do not produce closed–loop autonomy/adaptability; biological cataloging or data–lake plays that do not yield novel embodied control or controlled training datasets tied to platform validation; speculative bio–AI