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The last few years have witnessed substantial progress in the field of embodied AI where artificial agents, mirroring biological counterparts, are now able to learn from interaction to accomplish complex tasks. Despite this success,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Sarah Pratt , Luca Weihs , Ali Farhadi

Multi-modal AI systems will likely become a ubiquitous presence in our everyday lives. A promising approach to making these systems more interactive is to embody them as agents within physical and virtual environments. At present, systems…

Human intelligence's adaptability is remarkable, allowing us to adjust to new tasks and multi-modal environments swiftly. This skill is evident from a young age as we acquire new abilities and solve problems by imitating others or following…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Shrestha Mohanty , Negar Arabzadeh , Julia Kiseleva , Artem Zholus , Milagro Teruel , Ahmed Awadallah , Yuxuan Sun , Kavya Srinet , Arthur Szlam

Embodied Artificial Intelligence (AI) is an intelligent system paradigm for achieving Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), serving as the cornerstone for various applications and driving the evolution from cyberspace to physical systems.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Tongtong Feng , Xin Wang , Yu-Gang Jiang , Wenwu Zhu

The pursuit of artificial general intelligence (AGI) has placed embodied intelligence at the forefront of robotics research. Embodied intelligence focuses on agents capable of perceiving, reasoning, and acting within the physical world.…

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across various tasks, yet they face significant challenges in embodied task planning scenarios that require continuous environmental understanding and action generation.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Zhaoye Fei , Li Ji , Siyin Wang , Junhao Shi , Jingjing Gong , Xipeng Qiu

Embodiment is an important characteristic for all intelligent agents (creatures and robots), while existing scene description tasks mainly focus on analyzing images passively and the semantic understanding of the scenario is separated from…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-05-08 Sinan Tan , Huaping Liu , Di Guo , Xinyu Zhang , Fuchun Sun

This paper describes our research on AI agents embodied in visual, virtual or physical forms, enabling them to interact with both users and their environments. These agents, which include virtual avatars, wearable devices, and robots, are…

Embodied AI is a recent research area that aims at creating intelligent agents that can move and operate inside an environment. Existing approaches in this field demand the agents to act in completely new and unexplored scenes. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Federico Landi , Roberto Bigazzi , Marcella Cornia , Silvia Cascianelli , Lorenzo Baraldi , Rita Cucchiara

The automation of scientific discovery represents a critical milestone in Artificial Intelligence (AI) research. However, existing agentic systems for science suffer from two fundamental limitations: rigid, pre-programmed workflows that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Ed Li , Junyu Ren , Xintian Pan , Cat Yan , Chuanhao Li , Dirk Bergemann , Zhuoran Yang

We describe a framework for research and evaluation in Embodied AI. Our proposal is based on a canonical task: Rearrangement. A standard task can focus the development of new techniques and serve as a source of trained models that can be…

While the exploration for embodied AI has spanned multiple decades, it remains a persistent challenge to endow agents with human-level intelligence, including perception, learning, reasoning, decision-making, control, and generalization…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Zhiyuan Xu , Kun Wu , Junjie Wen , Jinming Li , Ning Liu , Zhengping Che , Jian Tang

Embodied artificial intelligence is rapidly moving from research into real-world systems such as autonomous vehicles, mobile robots, and industrial machines. As these systems become more capable of perceiving, deciding, and acting in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Jan-Mou Li , Paul Schmitt , Wei Tong , Majed Mohammed , Akshay Chalana , Arpan Kusari , Edward Griffor

Embodied AI is widely recognized as a cornerstone of artificial general intelligence (AGI) because it involves controlling embodied agents to perform tasks in the physical world. Building on the success of large language models (LLMs) and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Yueen Ma , Zixing Song , Yuzheng Zhuang , Jianye Hao , Irwin King

Current embodied intelligent systems still face a substantial gap between high-level reasoning and low-level physical execution in open-world environments. Although Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models provide strong perception and intuitive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Dongjie Huo , Haoyun Liu , Guoqing Liu , Dekang Qi , Zhiming Sun , Maoguo Gao , Jianxin He , Yandan Yang , Xinyuan Chang , Feng Xiong , Xing Wei , Zhiheng Ma , Mu Xu

Embodied decision-making enables agents to translate high-level goals into executable actions through continuous interactions within the physical world, forming a cornerstone of general-purpose embodied intelligence. Large language models…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Zixing Lei , Sheng Yin , Yichen Xiong , Yuanzhuo Ding , Wenhao Huang , Yuxi Wei , Qingyao Xu , Yiming Li , Weixin Li , Yunhong Wang , Siheng Chen

Embodied AI is a prominent research topic in both academia and industry. Current research centers on completing tasks based on explicit user instructions. However, for robots to integrate into human society, they must understand which…

AI agents today are mostly siloed - they either retrieve and reason over vast amount of digital information and knowledge obtained online; or interact with the physical world through embodied perception, planning and action - but rarely…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Yining Hong , Rui Sun , Bingxuan Li , Xingcheng Yao , Maxine Wu , Alexander Chien , Da Yin , Ying Nian Wu , Zhecan James Wang , Kai-Wei Chang

A smart city can be seen as a framework, comprised of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). An intelligent network of connected devices that collect data with their sensors and transmit them using cloud technologies in order to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Farzan Shenavarmasouleh , Farid Ghareh Mohammadi , M. Hadi Amini , Hamid R. Arabnia

Embodied Artificial Intelligence (Embodied AI) integrates perception, cognition, planning, and interaction into agents that operate in open-world, safety-critical environments. As these systems gain autonomy and enter domains such as…