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Embodied computer vision considers perception for robots in novel, unstructured environments. Of particular importance is the embodied visual exploration problem: how might a robot equipped with a camera scope out a new environment? Despite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-24 Santhosh K. Ramakrishnan , Dinesh Jayaraman , Kristen Grauman

The automatic design of embodied agents (e.g. robots) has existed for 31 years and is experiencing a renaissance of interest in the literature. To date however, the field has remained narrowly focused on two kinds of anatomically simple…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Muhan Li , Lingji Kong , Sam Kriegman

In nature, biological organisms jointly evolve both their morphology and their neurological capabilities to improve their chances for survival. Consequently, task information is encoded in both their brains and their bodies. In robotics,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-06-15 Ana Pervan , Todd D. Murphey

Robots are traditionally bounded by a fixed embodiment during their operational lifetime, which limits their ability to adapt to their surroundings. Co-optimizing control and morphology of a robot, however, is often inefficient due to the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Chen Yu , Weinan Zhang , Hang Lai , Zheng Tian , Laurent Kneip , Jun Wang

Embodied agents capable of complex physical skills can improve productivity, elevate life quality, and reshape human-machine collaboration. We aim at autonomous training of embodied agents for various tasks involving mainly large foundation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Sizhe Yang , Qian Luo , Anumpam Pani , Yanchao Yang

Embodied AI requires agents that perceive, act, and anticipate how actions reshape future world states. World models serve as internal simulators that capture environment dynamics, enabling forward and counterfactual rollouts to support…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Xinqing Li , Xin He , Le Zhang , Min Wu , Xiaoli Li , Yun Liu

AI systems are becoming active participants in organizational and knowledge work. They increasingly interact with humans, coordinate workflows, and operate in multi-agent arrangements. Understanding their effects therefore requires more…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Yingjie Zhang , Chun Feng , Weizhang Zhu , Tianshu Sun

Embodied AI research is increasingly moving beyond single-task, single-environment policy learning toward multi-task, multi-scene, and multi-model settings. This shift substantially increases the engineering overhead and development time…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Xueyang Zhou , Yihan Sun , Xijie Gong , Guiyao Tie , Pan Zhou , Lichao Sun , Yongchao Chen

Embodied AI aims to develop intelligent systems with physical forms capable of perceiving, decision-making, acting, and learning in real-world environments, providing a promising way to Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). Despite decades…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Wenlong Liang , Rui Zhou , Yang Ma , Bing Zhang , Songlin Li , Yijia Liao , Ping Kuang

In this paper, we argue that the future of Artificial Intelligence research resides in two keywords: integration and embodiment. We support this claim by analyzing the recent advances of the field. Regarding integration, we note that the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-09-19 Clément Moulin-Frier , Jordi-Ysard Puigbò , Xerxes D. Arsiwalla , Martì Sanchez-Fibla , Paul F. M. J. Verschure

Scientists have traditionally limited the mechanisms of social cognition to one brain, but recent approaches claim that interaction also realizes cognitive work. Experiments under constrained virtual settings revealed that interaction…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2014-01-17 Tom Froese , Hiroyuki Iizuka , Takashi Ikegami

We introduce environment predictive coding, a self-supervised approach to learn environment-level representations for embodied agents. In contrast to prior work on self-supervised learning for images, we aim to jointly encode a series of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-05 Santhosh K. Ramakrishnan , Tushar Nagarajan , Ziad Al-Halah , Kristen Grauman

Creating autonomous, self-supporting, self-replicating, sustainable systems is a great challenge. To some extent, understanding life means not only being able to create it from scratch, but also improving, supporting, saving it, or even…

Robotics · Computer Science 2011-11-07 Serge Kernbach

This work presents an embodied agent that can adapt its semantic segmentation network to new indoor environments in a fully autonomous way. Because semantic segmentation networks fail to generalize well to unseen environments, the agent…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-05 René Zurbrügg , Hermann Blum , Cesar Cadena , Roland Siegwart , Lukas Schmid

In the pursuit of realizing artificial general intelligence (AGI), the importance of embodied artificial intelligence (AI) becomes increasingly apparent. Following this trend, research integrating robots with AGI has become prominent. As…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Zhe Sun , Pengfei Tian , Xiaozhu Hu , Xiaoyu Zhao , Huiying Li , Zhenliang Zhang

Embodied task planning requires agents to execute long-horizon, goal-directed actions in complex 3D environments, where success depends on both immediate perception and accumulated experience across tasks. However, most existing LLM-based…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Xiaoyu Ma , Lianyu Hu , Wenbing Tang , Zixuan Hu , Zeqin Liao , Zhizhen Wu , Yang Liu

The human brain's plasticity allows for the integration of artificial body parts into the human body. Leveraging this, embodied systems realize intuitive interactions with the environment. We introduce a novel concept: embodied swarm…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Sosuke Ichihashi , So Kuroki , Mai Nishimura , Kazumi Kasaura , Takefumi Hiraki , Kazutoshi Tanaka , Shigeo Yoshida

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

Empowering embodied agents, such as robots, with Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become increasingly important in recent years. A major challenge is task open-endedness. In practice, robots often need to perform tasks with novel goals that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-12 William Wei Wang , Dongqi Han , Xufang Luo , Yifei Shen , Charles Ling , Boyu Wang , Dongsheng Li

Designing robots by hand can be costly and time consuming, especially if the robots have to be created with novel materials, or be robust to internal or external changes. In order to create robots automatically, without the need for human…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Emma Hjellbrekke Stensby , Kai Olav Ellefsen , Kyrre Glette