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It is genuinely cross-cutting across all physical-AI categories: physical robots are reached as high-risk AI both via Annex III (standalone high-risk uses such as biometrics) and via Annex I (AI as a safety component of products under existing EU harmonisation law - bridging to the Machinery Regulation for robots, to motor-vehicle type-approval for autonomous cars and trucks, and to the EASA/UAS framework for drones), plus the general-purpose-AI model rules that apply regardless of embodiment. (formFactors left empty: genuinely applies to every category.) 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