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Machine learning has long since become a keystone technology, accelerating science and applications in a broad range of domains. Consequently, the notion of applying learning methods to a particular problem set has become an established and…

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…

Semantic information in embodied AI is inherently multi-source and multi-stage, making it challenging to fully leverage for achieving stable perception-to-action loops in real-world environments. Early studies have combined manual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Shuai Chen , Hao Chen , Yuanchen Bei , Tianyang Zhao , Zhibo Zhou , Feiran Huang

This paper introduces the concept of coexistence for embodied artificial agents and argues that it is a prerequisite for long-term, in-the-wild interaction with humans. Contemporary embodied artificial agents excel in static, predefined…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Hannah Kuehn , Joseph La Delfa , Miguel Vasco , Danica Kragic , Iolanda Leite

Embodied artificial intelligence emphasizes the role of an agent's body in generating human-like behaviors. The recent efforts on EmbodiedAI pay a lot of attention to building up machine learning models to possess perceiving, planning, and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Chen Gao , Baining Zhao , Weichen Zhang , Jinzhu Mao , Jun Zhang , Zhiheng Zheng , Fanhang Man , Jianjie Fang , Zile Zhou , Jinqiang Cui , Xinlei Chen , Yong Li

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…

The reasoning capabilities of embodied agents introduce a critical, under-explored inferential privacy challenge, where the risk of an agent generate sensitive conclusions from ambient data. This capability creates a fundamental tension…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Shuning Zhang , Hong Jia , Simin Li , Ting Dang , Yongquan `Owen' Hu , Xin Yi , Hewu Li

Collective Adaptive Intelligence (CAI) represent a transformative approach in embodied AI, wherein numerous autonomous agents collaborate, adapt, and self-organize to navigate complex, dynamic environments. By enabling systems to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Fan Wang , Shaoshan Liu

Recent advances in generative modeling have spurred a resurgence in the field of Embodied Artificial Intelligence (EAI). EAI systems typically deploy large language models to physical systems capable of interacting with their environment.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Selma Wanna , Fabian Parra , Robert Valner , Karl Kruusamäe , Mitch Pryor

Meaning has been called the "holy grail" of a variety of scientific disciplines, ranging from linguistics to philosophy, psychology and the neurosciences. The field of Artifical Intelligence (AI) is very much a part of that list: the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-10-25 Douwe Kiela , Luana Bulat , Anita L. Vero , Stephen Clark

Modern Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems excel at diverse tasks, from image classification to strategy games, even outperforming humans in many of these domains. After making astounding progress in language learning in the recent decade,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Marina Dubova

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

The field of embodied AI (EAI) is rapidly advancing. Unlike virtual AI, EAI systems can exist in, learn from, reason about, and act in the physical world. With recent advances in AI models and hardware, EAI systems are becoming increasingly…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Jared Perlo , Alexander Robey , Fazl Barez , Luciano Floridi , Jakob Mökander

Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), widely regarded as the fundamental goal of artificial intelligence, represents the realization of cognitive capabilities that enable the handling of general tasks with human-like proficiency.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Bo Yu , Jiangning Wei , Minzhen Hu , Zejie Han , Tianjian Zou , Ye He , Jun Liu

The rapid advancement of embodied intelligence and world models has intensified efforts to integrate physical laws into AI systems, yet physical perception and symbolic physics reasoning have developed along separate trajectories without a…

There has been an emerging paradigm shift from the era of "internet AI" to "embodied AI", where AI algorithms and agents no longer learn from datasets of images, videos or text curated primarily from the internet. Instead, they learn…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-01-06 Jiafei Duan , Samson Yu , Hui Li Tan , Hongyuan Zhu , Cheston Tan

Embodied systems, where generative autonomous agents engage with the physical world through integrated perception, cognition, action, and advanced reasoning powered by large language models (LLMs), hold immense potential for addressing…

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

Co-design is essential for grounding embodied artificial intelligence (AI) systems in real-world contexts, especially high-stakes domains such as healthcare. While prior work has explored multidisciplinary collaboration, iterative…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Yuanchen Bai , Ruixiang Han , Niti Parikh , Wendy Ju , Angelique Taylor