Abstract
Whilst providing a universal, clear and meaningful definition of 'Embodied Intelligence' is challenging, there is however a clear direction and motivation of the research community to further our understanding of systems that exhibit embodied intelligence and to understand how it can be designed and leveraged. This is a challenging topic, and requires an interdisciplinary and cooperative approach from researchers from engineering, social sciences, computer sciences, biological, materials science and more.
Furthering our understanding or Embodied Intelligence requires advancement in the philosophical and theoretical domains to provide frameworks intelligence, consciousness and learning. However the inherently physicality of embodied intelligence relies on the creation of physical technologies and real world interactions, requiring increasingly smart and novel technologies. The intersection of these domains, in a world where AI and machine intelligence are playing an ever growing role in our daily lives makes this research field timely, fascinating and significant.
In this book we provide a representative collection of papers written by the leading researchers in the field who attended and participated in the Embodied Intelligence Workshop, held virtually in March 2021. This includes short reviews, perspectives and original research articles. These aim to provide thought provoking, interdisciplinary and novel views and perspectives on this field, its future direction and some of the key concepts needed to deliver breakthroughs in our understanding or practical implementation.
The book first touches on perspectives and outlooks for Embodied Intelligence before including examples of soft and bio-inspired robotics. This is followed by chapters discussing the principles of Embodied Intelligence in robotics and also examples of embodiment for real-world applications. Finally, the last two chapters focus on cognition and learning and also the philosophical and conceptual issues surrounding Embodied Intelligence.
We would like to thank all of the participants of the seminar, the authors, and the reviewers for their excellent contributions to this volume.
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