Nature Machine Intelligence: Cybernetics and interoception framework for embodied AI agents

AnnaCiaunica · x · 2026-09-25

A Nature Machine Intelligence editorial highlights new work combining biological interoception with cybernetics, reinforcement learning, and neuroscience to build autonomous, adaptive embodied AI agents. Building on Norbert Wiener's 1940s cybernetics, the framework has agents continuously monitor internal states—like living organisms regulating temperature or glucose—and adapt their actions accordingly, closing the feedback loop needed for genuine embodied autonomy.

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