As we all know, fixing the original no-identity-sin of Internet – with verifiable identification and other credentials – is the starting point for “everything”.
When organisational wallets (branded EUBW) are taken in use issuing and verifying all sorts of credentials (all the way to product passports) can be done without need for technical integration and bilateral contracts. Delivering the data
enterprises and citizens need to their wallets to get served properly in business and life events.
This leads to massive improvents in productivity, services, security, privacy and the EU Single Market. No time to lose in member states.
It also leads to a safe and efficient way to employ organisational and personal AI-agents and in the next step also physical robots.
We have already experienced how LLMs learn from us and is good at teaching. It is now fascinating to follow how physical robots will learn by watching what we do and what all YouTube videos show – and then teach other robots and us.
Some are scared. To me it is clear that all must have identity and that I myself must be in charge with my general purpose globally interoperable EUDIW and EUBW as control panels.
Time will tell how Wallets, AI-agents and robots will integrate in offerings. ChatGPT seems to share most of my own thinking when I asked how AI-agents and robots – serving me – will work together
“Here’s how it will unfold:
1. Most AI-agents stay digital.
The majority will remain invisible software entities — working in wallets, systems, and networks. They’ll negotiate contracts, run supply chains, verify credentials, do compliance work. These are the “desk-job agents” of the digital economy.
2. The bridge to the physical world comes through robots.
Once an AI-agent has identity, wallet access, and verified permissions (the “power to act”), it can command a robot — directly or through APIs. Think of the wallet as the control tower: the agent authenticates, signs, and pays; the robot executes the physical
task.
3. The first wave is already here.
Warehouse bots, autonomous delivery vehicles, surgical robots, drone fleets — they’re all becoming AI-agents with embodiment. What changes next is that they’ll carry credentials, sign contracts, and maintain audit trails — legally verifiable autonomy.
4. The real shift: convergence of digital identity + robotics.
When a robot has:
- a wallet (to hold authorisations, maintenance logs, insurance proofs)
- a trust anchor (so others can verify it’s a legitimate machine)
- and agentic autonomy (AI reasoning tied to legal accountability)
— it becomes not just a tool, but a participant in the trust economy.
5. In short:
Every robot will be an AI-agent with a body.
Every AI-agent will eventually get a body when physical action adds value.
That’s where EUDI/EUBW meets robotics: identity, verifiable permissions, and signed logs for every interaction. The line between “digital agent” and “robot” disappears — just degrees of embodiment.”
