The Institute for Physical AI.
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.
We move Physical AI from the lab to the field through education, research, and companies, and give students a seat as authors of the work.
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 it need a home. The Institute for Physical AI is that home: a stand-alone division of Bailey, autonomous in its work but operating in sync with the parent to carry its mandate, from the people who fly the aircraft to the intelligence that flies itself.
Part of Bailey Military Institute, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit.
The principles behind the work.
Build-first, on real platforms, in the open, and mission-driven.
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
Part of a 501(c)(3) institute. The work serves students, the field, and the public.
Education, research, ventures, and intelligence.
The four parts of the Institute.
Education
Build-first courses and live 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 →
Meet the team, or find a way in.
The investigators, students, and partners behind the work.