I Gave an AI a Body — Cyrus Clarke, MIT Media Lab

The core technical contribution is the development of a closed-loop system for an embodied AI agent that learns a physical 'body language' independent of explicit task instructions. This system involves a shape display as the AI's body, a human-in-the-loop for scoring and validation, and a process for generating and refining gestures. The agent's learned gestures can respond faster than the language model, demonstrating a new paradigm for AI interaction and learning in a physical form.