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If one robot has mapped a room, could another use some of that information? A shared spatial database is an ambitious idea, but the useful information…

A remote expert may have a limited time to review a live scene.

Several live viewpoints could give a coordination team different pieces of a developing scene.

A robot that pauses at the right time may be more useful than one that confidently continues in the wrong direction.

Remote robot operation could let a human inspect a machine’s view and guide a supported action from elsewhere.

Some situations are difficult to collect repeatedly in the real world.

A robot completing a virtual task is a promising demonstration, not the end of testing.

Sim-to-real transfer concerns taking learning or behaviour developed in simulation into a physical system.

A virtual robot school could contain many versions of a task: different rooms, object positions and interruptions.

A construction site does not stay still.

A rescue robot may need to move through spaces that change unpredictably.

An underground inspection robot needs more than a destination on a map.

Moving supplies between hospital departments is a different problem from providing patient care.

A warehouse brings together shelves, routes, people and moving work.

A digital building model could support more than one audience.

A digital room is only useful while its assumptions remain relevant.

Imagine a domestic robot arriving with some knowledge of the layout it will encounter.

A robot foundation model is intended to support a broader range of behaviours than a system trained for one narrow example.

A practical robot task may involve several kinds of information at once.

Embodied reasoning is about working out what to do in a physical setting.