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## Physical AI Is Already Working in Healthcare and Life Sciences

Generative AI recommends. Physical AI acts. It uses sensory inputs and algorithms to direct what lab robots and medical devices actually do, in settings that change minute to minute.

Robot orders in the life sciences, pharmaceutical, and biomedical sectors rose 32% during the first half of 2026 compared with the same period last year. Adoption is strongest in controlled settings, such as the lab bench, the manufacturing line, and the imaging lab, and it slows as systems get closer to patient intervention. Start where conditions are controlled, then earn the trust to go further.

This Harvard Business Review Analytic Services briefing paper in association with SoftServe, answers the questions leaders face next:

- What value looks like when the business case is clinical, operational, and economic
- How bounded autonomy lets machines act within set limits while people keep authority over judgment
- How digital twins surface errors earlier, when they cost less to fix
- What clinicians, regulators, and hospital buyers need to see before they trust a system

Experts from GE HealthCare, the Association for Advancing Automation, and the University of Maryland explain how they define reliability, validate performance, and measure value.  

Download the report and bring their answers to your next deployment decision. 

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