Synergetic Empowerment: Wireless Communications Meets Embodied Intelligence

--Wireless communication is evolving into an agent era, where large-scale agents with inherent embodied intelligence are not just users but active participants. The perfect combination of wireless communication and embodied intelligence can achieve a synergetic empowerment and greatly facilitate the development of agent communication. An overview of this synergetic empowerment is presented, framing it as a co-evolutionary process that transforms wireless communication from a simple utility into the digital nervous system of a collective intelligence, while simultaneously elevating isolated agents into a unified superorganism with emergent capabilities far exceeding individual contributions. Furthermore, critical open issues and future research directions are identified. IRELESS communication is evolving into the agent era, marking a fundamental shift from connecting passive information endpoints to enabling massive-scale agent collaboration. Unlike traditional devices, these agents such as autonomous vehicles, industrial robots, and advanced environmental sensors possess inherent embodied intelligence, empowering them to actively perceive, reason, and physically interact with their surroundings [1]. The scale of this transformation is unprecedented. The projections for 2030 estimate that the number of connected IoT devices will reach 125 billion, while monthly global mobile traffic is expected to increase to over 5000 exabytes, representing an 80-fold increase from 2020 [2]. More critically, a growing portion of these devices is the embodied agents that require real-time coordination for complex collective tasks, marking a qualitative shift from isolated sensors to collaborative swarms. Diao and Q. Wu are with the College of Electronic and Information Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, 210000, P .