The Embodiment Gap: Why AI Needs Bodies and What's Missing from Neural Networks

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Physical Intelligence raised $1.1B to prove that robotics foundation models can generalize across tasks. Meanwhile, neuroscience reveals what current AI architectures are fundamentally missing: evolved loss functions, omnidirectional inference, and the rich feedback loops that only embodiment provides.

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