A New Era of Embodiment: Cognitive Breakthroughs and Scene Adaptation in Robot Perception, Decision-Making and Autonomous Control

Dear Colleagues,

Currently, the intelligence and integration of advanced autonomous robots with multiple sensors are escalating, with remarkable progress in dexterity and task adaptability. Their applications have expanded beyond manufacturing and automation to diverse scenarios such as domestic services, medical care, outdoor farming, and environmental exploration—all of which increasingly require embodied intelligence to bridge environmental perception, physical interaction, and cognitive reasoning. These emerging scenarios pose unprecedented challenges such as those involving embodied systems achieving multimodal perception with context-aware accuracy, the collaboration of heterogeneous robots, and human–robot interaction via embodied common sense.

Against this backdrop, this Special Issue centers on embodied intelligence as a core pillar of research, aiming to construct a cross-domain innovation pathway for exploring the transformative potential of cutting-edge technologies: focusing on machine learning-based dynamic adaptation mechanisms for embodied perception and sensing, large-model-empowered semantic understanding in embodied decision-making, and advanced algorithms that enable robots to learn embodied skills through physical-world interaction. By integrating interdisciplinary advancements in embodied cognition, machine learning, and large-model-driven robotics, this Special Issue will provide an excellent platform for researchers to share breakthroughs regarding autonomous robots with embodied intelligence.

Dr. Yuanlong Xie
Guest Editor

Prof. Dr. Wenlong Li
Prof. Dr. Shuting Wang
Co-Guest Editors

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