On 7 June 2024, at Computex in Taipei, Reuters obtained a photo of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang seated beside a businesswoman who would later feature in the New York Times’ reporting. Just under two and a half years later, that photo sits near the start of an ABC News timeline that ends with Huang out of the company he co-founded in 1993. The confirmed facts first. Nvidia’s board announced on 12 November that Huang had resigned as president, CEO and director, effective immediately, without giving a reason. CFO Colette Kress is interim CEO, and Harvey C. Jones became the company’s first-ever chair of the board. On 8 November, Huang had emailed staff admitting, “I was unfaithful to my wife,” and adding, “I take full responsibility for what I did.” The same day the board opened an independent investigation into whether he had “been the target of a foreign intelligence effort,” saying it had “no reason to believe that either national security or NVIDIA secrets were compromised.”

A robot can move a box a thousand times without making a mistake. Then someone moves the box six inches to the left, and the system stops. For a factory, that can mean a delayed production line. On a farm, it could mean a missed target. In a defence operation, the consequences could be far more serious. The problem isn’t that the machine cannot move. It’s that the real world has changed, and the machine hasn’t adapted. This is the challenge Physical AI is designed to address: building machines that can perceive their surroundings, make decisions and respond to conditions they weren’t explicitly programmed to expect. And India has a reason to take this seriously. According to the International Federation of Robotics, India installed approximately 10,500 industrial robots in 2025, up 15% from the previous year . Annual installations grew at an average rate of 27% between 2020 and 2025, putting India sixth globally .