Guest Editorial: Special Issue on Artificial Intelligence for Robotics

The papers in this special section focus on artificial intelligence (AI) applications for robotics. AI technologies, covering cognition, analysis, inference, and decision-making, enable robots to act smartly and greatly enhance robots’ capabilities to assist and support humans. As a primary carrier of AI technologies, robotics is one of the applications for AI to demonstrate its strong ability. Augmenting robots with AI technologies for the engineering systems, robots are expected to have more pervasive applications in industry, agriculture, logistics, medicine, and to name but a few. This special issue will be dedicated to AI for robotics, including AI to support human–robot interaction, AI for multirobot systems, AI learning algorithms in robotics, ethics of AI in the context of robotics, and applications of AI-enabled robots. These papers offer innovative ideas and concepts, discoveries and improvements, and novel applications to the field of AI for robotics.