Embodied intelligence paradigm for human-robot communication.

Journal: Science robotics
Published Date: Aug 20, 2025

Abstract

Animals leverage their full embodiment to achieve multimodal, redundant, and subtle communication. To achieve the same for robots, they must similarly exploit their brain-body-environment interactions or their embodied intelligence. To advance this approach, we propose a framework building on Shannon's information channel theory for communication to provide the key principles and benchmarks for advancing human-robot communication.

Authors

  • Nana Obayashi
    École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland.
  • Arsen Abdulali
  • Fumiya Iida
    Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zürich, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland; Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1PZ, United Kingdom.
  • Josie Hughes
    CREATE-Lab, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Swiss Federal Technology Institute of Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland.

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