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While Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong zero-shot reasoning capabilities, their deployment as embodied agents still faces fundamental challenges in long-horizon planning. Unlike open-ended text generation, embodied…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Xiang Li , Ning Yan , Masood Mortazavi

Generative world models (WMs) can now simulate worlds with striking visual realism, which naturally raises the question of whether they can endow embodied agents with predictive perception for decision making. Progress on this question has…

Embodied artificial intelligence (Embodied AI) plays a pivotal role in the application of advanced technologies in the intelligent era, where AI systems are integrated with physical bodies that enable them to perceive, reason, and interact…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Zhaohan Feng , Ruiqi Xue , Lei Yuan , Yang Yu , Ning Ding , Meiqin Liu , Bingzhao Gao , Jian Sun , Xinhu Zheng , Gang Wang

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…

Video generation models have significantly advanced embodied intelligence, unlocking new possibilities for generating diverse robot data that capture perception, reasoning, and action in the physical world. However, synthesizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Yufan Deng , Zilin Pan , Hongyu Zhang , Xiaojie Li , Ruoqing Hu , Yufei Ding , Yiming Zou , Yan Zeng , Daquan Zhou

Simulated environments play an essential role in embodied AI, functionally analogous to test cases in software engineering. However, existing environment generation methods often emphasize visual realism (e.g., object diversity and layout…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Jianan Wang , Siyang Zhang , Bin Li , Juan Chen , Jingtao Qi , Zhuo Zhang , Chen Qian

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…

Embodied AI benchmarks have advanced navigation, manipulation, and reasoning, but most target complex humanoid agents or large-scale simulations that are far from real-world deployment. In contrast, mobile cleaning robots with dual mode…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Wenbo Li , Guanting Chen , Tao Zhao , Jiyao Wang , Tianxin Hu , Yuwen Liao , Weixiang Guo , Shenghai Yuan

Embodied planning requires agents to make coherent multi-step decisions based on dynamic visual observations and natural language goals. While recent vision-language models (VLMs) excel at static perception tasks, they struggle with the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Di Wu , Jiaxin Fan , Junzhe Zang , Guanbo Wang , Wei Yin , Wenhao Li , Bo Jin

When AI interacts with the physical world -- as a robot or an assistive agent -- new safety challenges emerge beyond those of purely ``digital AI". In such interactions, the potential for physical harm is direct and immediate. How well do…

Recent advances in large-scale video world models have enabled increasingly realistic future prediction, raising the prospect of using generated videos as scalable supervision for robot learning. However, for embodied manipulation,…

Embodied agents are evolving from passive reasoning systems into active executors that interact with tools, robots, and physical environments. Once granted execution authority, the central challenge becomes how to keep actions governable at…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Xue Qin , Simin Luan , John See , Cong Yang , Zhijun Li

With the rapid advancement of low-altitude remote sensing and Vision-Language Models (VLMs), Embodied Agents based on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have shown significant potential in autonomous tasks. However, current evaluation methods…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Mingning Guo , Mengwei Wu , Jiarun He , Shaoxian Li , Haifeng Li , Chao Tao

Biological neural networks (BNNs) have been established as a powerful and adaptive substrate that offer the potential for incredibly energy and data efficient information processing with distinct learning mechanisms. Yet a core challenge to…

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.…

Scientific experimentation and manufacturing rely on prolonged protocol development and complex, multi-step implementation, which require continuous human expertise for precise execution and decision-making, limiting interpretability and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Xinyi Lin , Yuyang Zhang , Yuanhang Gan , Juntao Chen , Hao Shen , Yichun He , Lijun Li , Ze Yuan , Shuang Wang , Chaohao Wang , Rui Zhang , Na Li , Jia Liu

The field of Embodied AI is witnessing a rapid evolution toward general-purpose robotic systems, fueled by high-fidelity simulation and large-scale data collection. However, this scaling capability remains severely bottlenecked by a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Zixing Lei , Genjia Liu , Yuanshuo Zhang , Qipeng Liu , Chuan Wen , Shanghang Zhang , Wenzhao Lian , Siheng Chen

Embodied Artificial Intelligence (Embodied AI) is crucial for achieving Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and serves as a foundation for various applications (e.g., intelligent mechatronics systems, smart manufacturing) that bridge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Yang Liu , Weixing Chen , Yongjie Bai , Xiaodan Liang , Guanbin Li , Wen Gao , Liang Lin

Behavior recognition is an important task in video representation learning. An essential aspect pertains to effective feature learning conducive to behavior recognition. Recently, researchers have started to study fine-grained behavior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Chengyang Hu , Yuduo Chen , Lizhuang Ma

Recent advances in high-fidelity virtual environments serve as one of the major driving forces for building intelligent embodied agents to perceive, reason and interact with the physical world. Typically, these environments remain unchanged…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Qinhong Zhou , Sunli Chen , Yisong Wang , Haozhe Xu , Weihua Du , Hongxin Zhang , Yilun Du , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Chuang Gan