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Record W4408636813 · doi:10.20517/ir.2025.11

Digital twins to embodied artificial intelligence: review and perspective

2025· article· en· W4408636813 on OpenAlexaff
J. Li, Simon X. Yang

Bibliographic record

VenueIntelligence & Robotics · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicDigital Transformation in Industry
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Guelph
Fundersnot available
KeywordsEmbodied cognitionPerspective (graphical)Cognitive sciencePsychologyComputer scienceArtificial intelligence

Abstract

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Embodied artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping the landscape of intelligent robotic systems, particularly by providing many realistic solutions to execute actions in complex and dynamic environments. However, Embodied AI requires a huge data generation for training and evaluation to ensure safe interaction with physical environments. Therefore, it is necessary to build a cost-effective simulated environment that can provide enough data for training and optimization from the physical characteristics, object properties, and interactions. Digital twins (DTs) are vital issues in Industry 5.0, which enable real-time monitoring, simulation, and optimization of physical processes by mirroring the state and action of their real-world counterparts. This review explores how integrating DTs with Embodied AI can bridge the sim-to-real gap by transforming virtual environments into dynamic and data-rich platforms. The integration of DTs offers real-time monitoring and virtual simulations, enabling Embodied AI agents to train and adapt in virtual environments before deployment in real-world scenarios. In this review, the main challenges and the novel perspective of the future development of integrating DTs and Embodied AI are discussed. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work to comprehensively review the synergies between DTs and Embodied AI.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: Review
Teacher disagreement score0.005
Threshold uncertainty score0.017

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0030.004
Science and technology studies0.0010.002
Scholarly communication0.0020.003
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0020.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0050.002

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.032
GPT teacher head0.299
Teacher spread0.267 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreReview

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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