PAIOS

Physical Artificial Intelligence Operating System

Version: 0.1 Draft

PAIOS defines a proposed embodiment-independent operating-system architecture for general Physical AI systems.

What This Is

PAIOS is the broad Physical AI architecture. It is intended to apply across multiple embodied platforms rather than only humanoid robots.

Possible embodiments include:

• humanoid robots;
• mobile robots;
• industrial robots;
• drones;
• autonomous vehicles;
• medical robots;
• marine robots;
• other embodied autonomous systems.

Core Architectural Areas

• Runtime
• Scheduler
• Memory Manager
• Capability Registry
• Validator Framework
• Mission Authority
• Resource Manager
• Network Stack
• Execution Governance

Relationship to Humanoid OS

PAIOS is the embodiment-independent genus architecture.

Humanoid OS is a humanoid-specific specialization of that broader architecture.

PAIOS
Physical AI genus
     |
     v
Humanoid OS
Humanoid specialization

Relationship to the Humanoid Constitution

The Humanoid Constitution is not merely the next layer in a software inheritance stack. It is a governance component that defines machine-enforceable rules and physical authority for humanoid operation.

Within a humanoid implementation, the relationship may be represented as:

PAIOS concepts
      |
      v
Humanoid OS
      |
      +---- Humanoid Constitution
      |
      +---- TrustBoundary
      |
      +---- Runtime / Scheduler / Resources
      |
      v
Physical Execution

Relationship to TrustBoundary

TrustBoundary provides candidate-action execution governance and may be incorporated into PAIOS-compatible runtimes as the validation and authorization boundary between AI-generated intent and physical execution.

Objectives

• embodiment-independent Physical AI platform architecture;
• hardware abstraction;
• cross-platform capability interfaces;
• governed embodied-AI execution;
• reusable runtime concepts across robot form factors.

Status / Implementation State

Draft reference architecture. PAIOS is currently a proposed architectural framework rather than a complete production operating system.

Related Repositories

• TrustRobotics/humanoid-os
• TrustRobotics/humanoid-constitution
• TrustRobotics/TrustBoundary
• TrustRobotics/TrustRobotics-rfcs
• TrustRobotics/TrustRobotics-architecture

Patent Notice

Publication of this architecture does not grant any patent license. Certain technologies described by PAIOS may be associated with issued or pending TrustRobotics patent rights.