The term “Embodied Artificial Intelligence” designates a rapidly growing, highly
interdisciplinary field, uniting researchers from areas as diverse as engineering,
philosophy, psychology, computer science, biology, neuroscience, biomechanics,
material science, and linguistics. What motivates these researchers to cooperate
is the common interest in intelligence, in particular the development of intelligent
machines. Another unifying characteristic of the field is the conviction that
intelligence must be embodied, must be conceived of in terms of physical agents
– biological or artificial – behaving in a real physical and social world. Given this
perspective, most of the work involves the design and construction of robots or
other kinds of artifacts