Skills development in Physical AI could cultivate lifelike intelligent robots

New research suggests combining educational topics and research disciplines to help researchers breathe life into lifelike intelligent robots. The comment piece suggests that teaching materials science, mechanical engineering, computer science, biology and chemistry as a combined discipline could help students develop the skills they need to create lifelike artificially intelligent (AI) robots as researchers. Known as Physical AI, these robots would be designed to look and behave like humans or other animals while possessing intellectual capabilities normally associated with biological organisms. These robots could in future help humans at work and in daily living, performing tasks that are dangerous for humans, and assisting in medicine, caregiving, security, building and industry. Although machines and biological beings exist separately, the intelligence capabilities of the two have not yet been combined.