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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 OpenAlex

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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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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.990
Threshold uncertainty score0.995

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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