The Physical AI department at Bailey Military Institute.
We teach, research, and commercialize Physical AI — the intelligence that lets machines perceive, decide, and act in the real world. We are the autonomy arm of an aviation-education institute: from the people who fly the aircraft to the intelligence that flies it itself.
Make embodied intelligence work in the real world.
And teach the people who will. We exist to move Physical AI from the lab to the field — through education that builds, research that reproduces, and companies that ship — and to give students a seat as authors of that work, not spectators to it.
An aviation institute, extended into autonomy.
Bailey Military Institute is a 501(c)(3) aviation-education nonprofit that trains FAA Part 107 drone pilots. Autonomy is where aviation is going — so the skills, the research, and the companies that build that autonomy need a home. The Physical AI department is that home: the same institute that teaches people to fly, now studying and teaching the intelligence that flies itself.
Part of Bailey Military Institute — a 501(c)(3) nonprofit.
Four commitments.
What shapes the day-to-day, across education, research, and ventures.
Students as co-authors
People here own real problems and ship real systems — research and companies, not coursework about them.
It has to fly
Work is judged on real airframes and hardware, in the conditions autonomy actually meets.
Reproducible by default
Research that reproduces and tooling others can run — the field moves faster when the work is legible.
A nonprofit, not a lab-for-hire
Part of a 501(c)(3) institute — the work serves students, the field, and the public, not a balance sheet.
Four parts, one department.
Learn it, research it, map it, and launch it.
Education
Build-first courses and live in-browser labs.
Open →Research
Five investigator-led groups and reproducible labs.
Open →Entrepreneurship
Start, staff, pitch, and fund Physical AI ventures.
Open →Intelligence
A living, geographic map of the field.
Open →New to the field? Walk through what Physical AI is →
Built by investigators, students, and partners.
Meet the team behind the work, or find a way in.