#embodied intelligence

AIが物理世界を理解し、行動する時代が来た。

2025年10月〜12月にかけて、Physical AI分野で画期的な研究が次々と発表されました。ここでは、その中から特に重要な10本の論文をピックアップしてお届けします。

🔥 注目ハイライト

1. NVIDIAの「Cosmos-Predict2.5」

2億本のビデオで学習した世界シミュレーター

Text・Image・VideoからリアルなWorld Simulationを生成。Sim2Real変換も高精度で実現し、ロボティクス研究の新たな基盤に。

2. VAT（Vision Action Transformer）

LIBEROベンチマーク98.15%達成

ViTの全階層特徴量を活用した革新的アーキテクチャ。ロボットの知覚-行動融合において従来手法を大幅に凌駕。

3. APEX：人間-AI協調システム

Mixed Realityで科学実験を変革

ウェアラブルデバイスを通じたCo-Embodied Intelligence。人間の精密さとAIの推論を融合し、製造現場を自律プロセスに。

💡 5つの重要トレンド

統合フレームワーク — 知覚・推論・行動の壁が消える

World Models — 物理世界のシミュレーションと予測

エッジ展開 — MERINDAでモバイルGPU比11倍のDRAM削減

アクセシビリティ — LoRA-VLAで低コストロボットにも最先端AI

評価基盤 — PAI-Benchで2,808の実世界ケースを標準化

🧠 パラダイムシフト

「知能はシンボル処理からではなく、物理的経験から創発する」 — Fundamentals of Physical AI

身体性・知覚・行動・学習・自律性・文脈感受性。この6つの原則が相互作用ループとして機能するとき、真のPhysical AIが生まれる。

🚀 今後の研究方向

物理的一貫性メトリクスの標準化

Long-horizon予測の改善

Sim2Real/Real2Simギャップの縮小

安全性・説明可能性の向上

AIは「考える」だけでなく「動く」存在へ。

Physical AIの波は、ロボティクス、製造、ヘルスケア、そして私たちの日常を変えていく。2025年はその転換点となる年だ。

In this post I want to focus on how musical composition can naturally discover OOO insights—how rhythm and sound patterns lead our bodies to philosophical understanding. The equal weight given to salt and stars demonstrates how our embodied musical intuition grasps what reason struggles to articulate. This poem came together quickly, with memory and body processes holding concept and imagery…

While going through the Cyberfeminism index this week, I found a paper that lead me down some interesting thought processes. The paper was ‘Why are Mammals called Mammals?’ This paper is about the cultural relationship between society and science, with our view of mammals being shaped by breasts, women, and animals. While this paper was more of a feminist look at scientific classification, it made me start thinking about evolutionary connections to intelligence. This is partially because in my other course, Poli 13DR we had just read Waller’s Perpatrators of Genocide, which at one point discussed the ways evolution affects our psychology, specifically in the cases of xenophobia and the formation of in-groups and out-groups. Both of these papers made me start thinking about the ways that evolutionary instincts have translated into social tendencies, and also by extension social intelligence. There are parts of the human psyche that still seem mysterious to us all. To some, our inability to understand our own mind’s complexity is evidence and symptom of our great intelligence. However, whenever I face the human mind through the lens of evolution those mysteries seem to be more like developments of instinct into situations that no longer call for that instinct. 

Our intelligence and ingenuity was a design from natural selection. The intelligent creatures that surround us were formed by the same forces. So it seems that intelligence is a natural byproduct of living long enough in the world for it to shape you for your environment. You don’t just understand the world around you inherently, you understand it as a tool for survival, that understanding shaped by the environment itself. 

Intelligence is about the expansion of knowledge to form an understanding of the world and other people. Part of this expansion means recognizing new information, and creating a network out of this information. A fundamental part of creating this network is the identification of patterns, and with these patterns forming connections about and between different data points. The creation of these networks and connections is what brings true understanding on a subject, these abilities presupposing intelligence.

3 KEYWORDS: Network, Connections, Understanding

The first image is a sketching of my ideas for images to exemplify my keywords.

NETWORK: Image 2 is a result of a p5.js code I wrote that creates a network of nodes from two starting nodes. The colorful lines are connections made between nodes of the same color.

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CONNECTIONS: Image 3 is a digital drawing I did on procreate meant to represent the patterns humans identify in nature, creating fictional connections. These patterns may not have any actual connection (the cloud isn't really a bunny, and the stars aren't purposefully representing anything we know), but they were connections we created due to our intelligence.

UNDERSTANDING: Image 4 is a collage between an anatomical image and a digital drawing. This is meant to be a representation of emotional recognition and sympathy, which is a way we understand other human beings. I wanted the anatomical aspect as a reminder that despite the fact it is an emotional reflection, they are still based on a subconscious logical connection. We can't sympathize without the ability to look at previously catalogued examples of our own emotions, as well as make the connection between that experience and the expressions of the person in front of us.

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