Chapter 1
How AI moved from seeing to planning to acting, why physical force cannot be undone, and why safety must run locally.
Chapter 2
A tour of embodied AI in the field: collaborative robots, mobile fleets, self-driving vehicles, drones, dexterous manipulation, and critical infrastructure defense.
Chapter 3
How intelligence becomes motion: the speed-tiered control hierarchy, Vision-Language-Action models, and neuro-symbolic fusion pairing neural perception with checkable safety rules.
Chapter 4
The hardware layer: big models in tight power budgets, event-based sensing for fast reflexes, and pairing throughput chips with real-time cores.
Chapter 5
Keeping a confident model safe with defense in depth: software sandboxing and watchdogs, hardwired interlocks, and an independent action-vetting critic.
Chapter 6
Where this is heading: the responsibility gap, EU AI Act compliance, and loco-manipulation as models scale toward unified whole-body control.
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