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Introduction
Welcome back to Laboratory! This week, our spotlight swings to Embodied AGI, the vision of AI with a body, a brain, and the street smarts to handle our messy, unpredictable world. A new review by Yequan Wang and Aixin Sun lays out a five-level roadmap for how we might get there—and makes clear we’re still idling in the slow lane.
In this briefing, we’ll chart:
The L1–L5 Ladder — Why the journey from single-task specialists to all-purpose humanoids is more marathon than sprint.
Four Dimensions of Mastery — The make-or-break capabilities every embodied system must conquer: omnimodality, humanoid cognition, real-time responsiveness, and true generalization.
The L3+ Leap — The conceptual framework the authors say could break us out of today’s task silos and into genuinely general-purpose robotics.
Strap in as we map the road from today’s helpful but blinkered bots to tomorrow’s autonomous companions—showing researchers, builders, and investors where the real acceleration lanes lie, and where the road is still under construction.
