Perception, Privacy, and Policy
The operator under observation.
Physical-AI systems sense the workforce in ways a human supervisor cannot. From an ordinary camera and microphone they read operator state (pulse, respiration, fatigue, attention, stress) below the threshold of human sight. The same perception that can protect an operator can expose one. This track studies where the line belongs: what should be sensed, by whom, and with what consent and governance. It is a new competency of the Human Layer.
Modalities the research spans:VideoAudioThermalSpatial RF / mmWave