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CAREER: Shaping Embodied Intelligence Through Language-Guided Introspection — NSF Award to University of Illinois at Urbana-Champa

Artificial intelligence (AI) systems are increasingly deployed in real-world physical environments to assist in factories, hospitals, warehouses, and other dynamic settings, where safety, reliability, and effective human-AI collaboration are essential. Yet current AI agents still fail in ways that are difficult to dete

Award titleCAREER: Shaping Embodied Intelligence Through Language-Guided Introspection
Award ID2542328
AwardeeUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
CityURBANA
StateIL
Amount obligated$356,787
Principal investigatorIsmini Lourentzou
ProgramRobust Intelligence
Start date07/15/2026
AbstractArtificial intelligence (AI) systems are increasingly deployed in real-world physical environments to assist in factories, hospitals, warehouses, and other dynamic settings, where safety, reliability, and effective human-AI collaboration are essential. Yet current AI agents still fail in ways that are difficult to detect, explain, and correct. They often misinterpret instructions, fail to recognize when their own reasoning is flawed, struggle to recover from errors, and persist in unsafe or inef
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