RDA 212

AI for Humanoid Robotics

Perception, Learning, Language and Embodied Intelligence

Humanoid robots have left the research laboratory. Machines with two arms, two legs and a head now walk warehouse floors, carry totes, greet visitors and answer questions, and the same advances in learning, perception and language that make them possible also power service robots of every shape: delivery robots, hospital assistants, receptionists and tutors. Building such a robot draws on nearly everything a robotics engineer knows, from motors and kinematics to neural networks and large language models, and it raises questions of safety, trust and ethics that a factory arm never did. This book teaches the methods of artificial intelligence that give humanoid and service robots their abilities, and how to integrate them into a robot that works with people.

13 chapters, 251 pages. Published by RAIN, 2026. Full contents