GDPR Won't Save You When the Robot Moves: Regulating Physical AI

Rene Grywnow’s 5-Minute Business Punch · Jul 16, 2026 · 6m

Part I argued that governance is the missing layer. Part II makes the gap concrete, and legal. In conversation with regulatory and liability counsel Dr. Miriam Vogt (former functional-safety engineer), we draw the line data-protection rules can’t cross: GDPR asks whether you were allowed to process the data; it never asks whether the robot should have moved.

We walk the five places current rules fall short for embodied and agentic systems, physical consequences and safety, accountability and liability, cyber-physical attacks, explainability in dynamic multi-agent environments, and…