Generative AI and Foundational Models for Robotics: Challenges, Developments and Applications
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Interests: data analytics; artificial intelligence (AI); automation and the ethics of AI; data and machines
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Dear Colleagues,
Generative AI and foundational models are empowering workplace productivity and industrial innovations, such as accelerated drug discovery and agentic AI for knowledge work. Despite these advances, generative AI has yet to transition into robotics applications for relatively simple household tasks such as opening doors, folding clothes, and sorting waste. With narrow AI (or non-generative AI), robots and robotic applications are limited to intelligent automation and control within well-defined environments for task-oriented behaviours. Generative AI and foundational models can overcome this limitation by providing a commonsense, human-like capability to perceive, navigate, and operate in human environments that have been built and refined by humans for our own needs.
This Special Issue invites original research articles that explore the intersection of AI and robotics with a specific focus on generative AI, foundational models, and hybrid approaches of narrow gen AI capabilities. Research articles focusing on the related challenges of audio, visual, sensory, and training data; data management, learning, and reasoning algorithms for the robotic foundation models; the safety, ethics, and responsible practices of AI in robotics; and real-world practical applications of AI robotics are also a focus of this Special Issue.
Prof. Dr. Daswin De Silva
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- artificial intelligence
- generative AI
- foundational models
- hybrid models
- robotic training data
- AI robotics safety
- AI robotics applications
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