Embodied intelligence paradigm for human-robot communication.

Obayashi, Nana; Abdulali, Arsen; Iida, Fumiya; Hughes, Josie · Sci Robot · 2025

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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.

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