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4. CONCLUSION
In summary, this editorial underscored the pressing need for advancing embodied artificial intelligence,
highlighted the key contributions of the accepted articles in this special issue, and briefly discussed both the
current challenges and promising future research directions in the field.

DECLARATIONS
Authors’ contributions
Substantial contributions to conception and design of the editorial: Fan, R.; Sun, M.; Giakos, G.

Availability of data and materials
Not applicable.

Financial support and sponsorship
This work was supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities and the Xiaomi
Young Talents Program.

Conflicts of interest
Fan, R. is Guest Editor of the Special Issue "Recent Advances in Embodied Artificial Intelligence" and
Editorial Board Member of the journal Intelligence & Robotics. Giakos, G. is Guest Editor of the Special
Issue "Recent Advances in Embodied Artificial Intelligence". Neither of them was involved in any steps of
editorial processing, notably including manuscript handling and decision-making. The other authors have
declared that they have no conflicts of interest.

Ethical approval and consent to participate
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Consent for publication
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Copyright
© The Author(s) 2025.

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