Embodied AI

A chatbot only produces text. Embodied AI has to see, balance, grasp and deal with friction, delays and objects that move. That is much harder, because a mistake can drop a plate or hit a person.

In a catalog the term often appears as a marketing label. A practical test is to ask what the robot can do without a person in the loop, in which environments and for how long. The answer tells you more than the phrase embodied AI on the product page.