embodied-control · activeTurning plans into physical action
Closing the loop from perception to action in a body or simulator, where mistakes have physical consequences and cannot be retried freely.
Tags: agentic, reasoning
Distinct from tool-use, where a tool call either succeeds or returns an error. Embodied control adds continuous state, partial observability, and irreversibility — a knocked-over object stays knocked over. Covers robotic manipulation, navigation, and vision-language-action models.
What counts as this capability
Scope boundary used when deciding whether a paper is really about this capability, rather than merely mentioning it.
In scope when a model's output drives actuation or navigation and success is judged by an achieved physical or simulated world state. NOT in scope: agents that only call software tools (that is tool-use), and not planning papers where the plan is never executed against an environment.
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Capabilities are a way of carving up the subject, and carvings are arguable. Say so if this one is wrong — especially a proposed one, which a pipeline added because several papers used the same framing, not because anyone decided it was right.