---
id: "entity-waymo"
type: "entity"
entityType: "product"
canonicalName: "Waymo"
source_timestamps: ["¶4"]
tags: ["robotics", "autonomous-vehicles", "physical-ai"]
related: ["concept-ai-fog"]
sources: ["futures"]
sourceVaultSlug: "hbr-seg-futures"
originDay: 2
articleStem: "hbr-foci-72-future-ai-fog"
sourceUrl: "https://hbr.org/2026/04/the-future-is-shrouded-in-an-ai-fog"
sourceTitle: "The Future Is Shrouded in an AI Fog"
---
# Waymo

**Role in the source:** Cited as the **best current exemplification of advances in physical AI**, providing a *'surreal feeling'* that makes it seem society has crossed the line into science fiction — a sensory anchor for the [[concept-ai-fog|AI fog]].

**Enrichment note:** An Alphabet-affiliated autonomous-driving company/product. Relevant caveat for [[claim-capex-obsolescence]]: Waymo demonstrates physical-AI progress in **transport, not manufacturing**, so it does not directly evidence the aerospace-robotics scenario.