23 terms
Robotics & Physical AI
AI with a body: robots, self-driving cars, digital twins, and embodied intelligence.
- autonomous vehiclenouna car or other vehicle that can drive itself using cameras, sensors, and AI, with little or no human control
- closed-loop discoverynountrendinga scientific research process in which an AI or automated system uses the results of one experiment to select or design the next…
- contact-rich manipulationnountrendingrobotic manipulation in which success depends on sustained or repeated physical contact and on controlling forces between the…
- cross-embodiment learningnountrendingrobot learning that transfers data, representations, skills, or policies between bodies with different sensors, shapes, joints…
- degrees of freedomnounthe number of independent variables, axes, or joint movements needed to describe the possible configuration or motion of a robot…
- digital twinnouna detailed virtual copy of a real object, building, factory, or city, kept updated with real data so it can be monitored and used…
- disengagementnounan event in which an autonomous driving or robotic system is deactivated and control passes to a human, either because the system…
- embodied AInountrendingAI that has a physical body, such as a robot or vehicle, and learns and acts by sensing and interacting with the real world
- humanoid robotnountrendinga robot with a roughly human body shape, including legs, arms, and often hands, designed to work in spaces built for people
- industrial AInountrendingthe application of artificial intelligence to industrial processes and physical operations, such as manufacturing, energy…
- Model Hardware Standardnountrendingan open specification for connecting AI agents to programmable physical equipment so that they can discover device capabilities…
- Moravec's paradoxnounthe observation that tasks humans find hard, like chess or math, are relatively easy for computers, while tasks humans find…
- physical AInountrendingAI that understands and acts in the physical world, powering robots, self-driving cars, drones, and smart factories
- physical AI deployment gapnountrendingthe difference between what a robot or other physical AI system can demonstrate under controlled conditions and what it can…
- physical reasoningnountrendingan AI system's ability to infer how objects, forces, materials, geometry, and actions interact in the physical world and to use…
- self-driving labnountrendinga laboratory system that combines AI, automated instruments, and robotics to choose, run, analyze, and refine experiments in a…
- sim-to-real transfernounthe transfer of an AI model, perception capability, or control policy learned in a simulated environment to a real physical system
- simulation-ready assetnouna digital representation of an object prepared with the geometry, physical properties, materials, and other information required…
- spatial intelligencenountrendingan AI system's ability to perceive, represent, reason about, and act within three-dimensional environments, including…
- teleoperationnountrendingthe remote control of a robot or machine by a human operator, often through a headset, controllers, cameras, or motion-tracking…
- vision-language-action modelnouna model that takes in camera images and spoken or written instructions and directly outputs robot movements
- vision-tactile-language-action modelnountrendinga robot model that combines visual observations, touch or force signals, language instructions, and action generation so it can…
- world action modelnounan AI model for embodied control that couples learned representations or predictions of how the world changes with the generation…
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