Embodied Predictive Cortex

Most modern robots remain heavily vision-centric. Contact, force, balance, and body state are exactly the signals biological systems treat as primary, and robots mostly discard them.

Embodied Predictive Cortex investigates an architecture built around distributed peripheral sensing, locally encoded contact events, proprioception, and central predictive control: fast local encoding at the periphery, prediction and coordination at the center.

A major enabling concept is an embodiment-independent somatosensory event schema, allowing physical interaction data to be represented consistently across robot morphologies and sensor configurations, which makes tactile datasets shareable and tactile intelligence transferable.