Embodied Cognitive Intelligence
noun ECI
A system with the complete capabilities of human cognition, whose environment is the physical world. It perceives through its own sensors, plans, acts through its own body, and continually learns from its experience.
Why the physical layer is the key to human-level cognition
The physical world runs on consistent rules, so every action yields a verifiable outcome, and with it a self-supervised learning signal. Acting in it anchors causation, objecthood, and agency, and enforces the inductive biases for continual and sample-efficient learning. Embodiment is very likely a necessary path to human-level cognition and recursive self-improvement.
Superintelligence for the physical world
We are building System 1 for physical agents, and the platform it runs on.
Our goal is physical intelligence beyond the human level: embodied agents that are more agile and dexterous, and that learn from everything they do. We focus on architectures and learning systems to get there, and to build embodied cognitive intelligence.
Our vision: 1+ robot per capita. A team of embodied agents for everyone.