{"id":224507,"date":"2025-11-04T21:06:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T03:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/the-value-of-physical-intelligence-how-researchers-are-working-to-safely-advance-capabilities-of-humanoid-robots"},"modified":"2025-11-04T21:06:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T03:06:09","slug":"the-value-of-physical-intelligence-how-researchers-are-working-to-safely-advance-capabilities-of-humanoid-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/the-value-of-physical-intelligence-how-researchers-are-working-to-safely-advance-capabilities-of-humanoid-robots","title":{"rendered":"The value of physical intelligence: How researchers are working to safely advance capabilities of humanoid robots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sPhK4V1zShM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You may not remember it, but odds are you took a few tumbles during your toddler era. You weren\u2019t alone. Falling, after all, is a natural consequence of learning to crawl, walk, climb and jump. Our balance, coordination and motor skills are developing throughout early childhood.<\/p>\n<p>But it also doesn\u2019t take long for these abilities\u2014also known as physical intelligence\u2014to become second nature for most, including deceptively complex actions such as walking, grasping objects and navigating our way across a room without having to think about it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs humans, we often take our physical intelligence for granted because it becomes so automatic when we\u2019re still young,\u201d said Bowen Weng, roboticist and assistant professor of computer science at Iowa State University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may not remember it, but odds are you took a few tumbles during your toddler era. You weren\u2019t alone. Falling, after all, is a natural consequence of learning to crawl, walk, climb and jump. Our balance, coordination and motor skills are developing throughout early childhood. But it also doesn\u2019t take long for these abilities\u2014also [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}