Microsoft Developer: Make Machines Smarter with Physical AI

IoT tells you what happened, industrial AI tells you what should happen next, and physical AI makes it happen. Unlike traditional automation, physical AI gets smarter with every execution, creating learning loops for the complex tasks machines already do.

Michael MacKenzie, Vice President of Product Management for Azure IoT and Digital Operations at Microsoft, explains how the pieces fit. Azure IoT Hub connects and updates devices at global scale, Azure IoT Operations curates data and runs inference in operational technology environments, and Azure Device Registry lets IT teams apply policy, role-based access control, and certificate management to OT devices.



Resources

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Chapters

0:00 What IoT gave businesses in the physical world

0:40 Why dashboards alone don't make machines smarter

1:05 How IoT, industrial AI, and physical AI work together

1:35 When to use Azure IoT Hub and Azure IoT Operations

2:20 How Azure Device Registry bridges IT and OT

3:05 How physical AI learns with every execution