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Welcome to the Physical AI Identity help centre. This is the starting point for readers and contributors to the Physical AI Identity encyclopedia, an independent reference covering Physical AI, robotics, autonomous systems, machine identity and related engineering and security topics.

Use this page to find articles, learn how the wiki works, create a draft, check sources and request editorial feedback. New contributors can follow the step-by-step article wizard.

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Our articles explain established concepts, research, technologies and standards relevant to physical artificial intelligence and related systems.

  • Physical AI — AI methods applied to the physical world, including perception and interaction.
  • Robotics — the engineering and study of robots, mechanisms, sensing, planning and control.
  • Autonomous Systems — systems that execute defined functions with varying levels of human involvement.
  • Machine Identity — identification, credentials and authentication of non-human computing entities.
  • Physical AI Identity — identity and trust considerations for AI-enabled physical systems.
  • Industrial Automation — automated processes and control in industrial operations.
  • Robot Cybersecurity — security of robotic devices, controllers and their communications.
  • AI Safety — research and practices concerned with risks and safety in AI systems.

Explore further: All pages · All categories · Requested or missing pages · Recent changes · Wiki statistics.

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Open the Article Wizard for the complete beginner-friendly process, including an article outline and instructions for requesting review.

  1. Sign in. Register or log in. Page creation currently requires a registered account.
  2. Choose a topic. Check the encyclopedia's scope, search existing pages, and avoid creating duplicates. See Help:Creating an article.
  3. Collect reliable sources. Look for appropriate books, peer-reviewed papers, published standards and other verifiable sources. Read Help:Reliable sources.
  4. Start a personal draft. Use the form below. Your draft will be created as a publicly viewable user subpage; it will not immediately become a main encyclopedia article.
  5. Write and cite. Define the topic clearly, explain its background and key aspects, and add citations next to the claims they support. See Help:Editing and Help:Citing sources.
  6. Review your work. Check accuracy, neutrality, sourcing, copyright, internal links and completeness. See Help:Article review.
  7. Request feedback and publish. Submit a review request, respond to suggestions, and use the documented publication process when the draft is ready.

Start a personal draft

Before creating a draft: Read the Article Wizard. Enter only the proposed subject title, such as Robot motion planning; do not enter a username or the word User:.

Where will my draft go? Under User:YourUsername/Drafts/Topic. Other people can generally view it. If you have already created a draft with the same name, the form opens that page for editing instead of replacing it with a new outline.

Our editorial principles

The encyclopedia aims to explain verifiable knowledge, not promote ideas, products or organizations.

  • Verifiability: Readers should be able to trace significant factual claims to identifiable, trustworthy publications. Do not fabricate references, results, quotations, dates, standards or numerical specifications.
  • Reliable sourcing: Prefer published research, academic books, authoritative standards and appropriately independent reports. Use primary sources with care and attribute the claims they make. Learn more.
  • Neutrality: Distinguish established findings from proposals, disputed claims and predictions. Avoid promotional language and unsupported claims of superiority. Learn more.
  • No original research: Do not present personal theories, new interpretations or unpublished findings as established encyclopedic facts.
  • Copyright and attribution: Write summaries in your own words. Do not paste substantial copyrighted text from papers, books, websites or AI-generated reproductions.
  • AI-assisted writing: Independently check every AI-assisted factual statement and reference against the real source. Fabricated citations and unverified claims are unacceptable.
  • Article scope: Describe relevant technical limitations, operating conditions and safety considerations, especially for robots, AI models and autonomous systems.

If a claim lacks adequate support, look for a reliable reference, qualify or remove the claim, or explain the sourcing concern on the article's talk page. Do not manufacture a citation to fill a gap.

Edit pages and add references

Editing options

  • Edit (VisualEditor) provides a visual editing experience where available.
  • Edit source (WikiEditor) provides direct control over Wikitext, headings, links, templates and categories.
  • Talk pages are for suggesting changes, asking sourcing questions and discussing disagreements about article content.

For guidance, see Help:Editing and Article templates and conventions.

Cite sources correctly

Our existing citation templates automatically create footnotes:

  • {{PAI Cite web}} — web pages and institutional documents.
  • {{PAI Cite journal}} — scholarly journal publications.
  • {{PAI Cite book}} — published books.

For example, this is the source markup for a real technical reference (replace it with the source relevant to your claim): 

{{PAI Cite web
|url=https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5280
|title=RFC 5280 — Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Certificate and Certificate Revocation List Profile
|website=RFC Editor
|access-date=2026-10-09
}}

These PAI Cite templates already generate reference tags. Do not place them inside another <ref>...</ref> pair. A normal manual <ref>Source details</ref> may also be used when appropriate.

Place the following near the end of an article: 

== References ==
{{PAI Reflist}}

For citation details, including how to cite a particular book, research paper or standard, read Help:Citing sources.

Draft review and publication

New articles should ordinarily be developed as drafts and checked before publication. The review guide explains the source-checking checklist and how reviewers provide feedback.

Important: Community review is currently an advisory workflow, not an automatic approval requirement. Registered users with the necessary rights may be able to create or move pages without completing review. Please follow the community's drafting and review process voluntarily.

Contributor tools and support

  • My contributions — your public edit history.
  • My user page — your profile and links to personal drafts.
  • Watchlist — changes to pages you follow, when signed in.
  • Recent changes — latest page edits.
  • Wanted pages — articles mentioned in links that have not yet been created.
  • Help desk — questions about editing, citations, technical templates and the draft process.

More detailed help

Need guidance? Ask at the community help desk. Reliable citations and careful, constructive edits help make this encyclopedia more useful to every reader.

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