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Future Tense

The ChatGPT Moment for Things That Move

What Nvidia's shift to 'physical AI' reveals about who actually gets a future

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A Z Mackay
Jan 28, 2026
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Every January, Jensen Huang takes the CES stage wearing his uniform: the leather jacket. It is a performance of consistency so rigid it has become a semiotic shibboleth. In 2025, he stood before fourteen humanoid robots arranged in a semicircle to announce that the ChatGPT moment for robotics was “just around the corner.” Twelve months later, at CES 202…

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