Aligning Perception, Reasoning, Modeling and Interaction: A Survey on Physical AI

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Main Authors: Xiang, Kun, Zhang, Terry Jingchen, Huang, Yinya, He, Jixi, Liu, Zirong, Tang, Yueling, Zhou, Ruizhe, Luo, Lijing, Wen, Youpeng, Chen, Xiuwei, Lin, Bingqian, Han, Jianhua, Xu, Hang, Li, Hanhui, Dong, Bin, Liang, Xiaodan
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author Xiang, Kun
Zhang, Terry Jingchen
Huang, Yinya
He, Jixi
Liu, Zirong
Tang, Yueling
Zhou, Ruizhe
Luo, Lijing
Wen, Youpeng
Chen, Xiuwei
Lin, Bingqian
Han, Jianhua
Xu, Hang
Li, Hanhui
Dong, Bin
Liang, Xiaodan
author_facet Xiang, Kun
Zhang, Terry Jingchen
Huang, Yinya
He, Jixi
Liu, Zirong
Tang, Yueling
Zhou, Ruizhe
Luo, Lijing
Wen, Youpeng
Chen, Xiuwei
Lin, Bingqian
Han, Jianhua
Xu, Hang
Li, Hanhui
Dong, Bin
Liang, Xiaodan
contents The rapid advancement of embodied intelligence and world models has intensified efforts to integrate physical laws into AI systems, yet physical perception and symbolic physics reasoning have developed along separate trajectories without a unified bridging framework. This work provides a comprehensive overview of physical AI, establishing clear distinctions between theoretical physics reasoning and applied physical understanding while systematically examining how physics-grounded methods enhance AI's real-world comprehension across structured symbolic reasoning, embodied systems, and generative models. Through rigorous analysis of recent advances, we advocate for intelligent systems that ground learning in both physical principles and embodied reasoning processes, transcending pattern recognition toward genuine understanding of physical laws. Our synthesis envisions next-generation world models capable of explaining physical phenomena and predicting future states, advancing safe, generalizable, and interpretable AI systems. We maintain a continuously updated resource at https://github.com/AI4Phys/Awesome-AI-for-Physics.
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spellingShingle Aligning Perception, Reasoning, Modeling and Interaction: A Survey on Physical AI
Xiang, Kun
Zhang, Terry Jingchen
Huang, Yinya
He, Jixi
Liu, Zirong
Tang, Yueling
Zhou, Ruizhe
Luo, Lijing
Wen, Youpeng
Chen, Xiuwei
Lin, Bingqian
Han, Jianhua
Xu, Hang
Li, Hanhui
Dong, Bin
Liang, Xiaodan
Artificial Intelligence
The rapid advancement of embodied intelligence and world models has intensified efforts to integrate physical laws into AI systems, yet physical perception and symbolic physics reasoning have developed along separate trajectories without a unified bridging framework. This work provides a comprehensive overview of physical AI, establishing clear distinctions between theoretical physics reasoning and applied physical understanding while systematically examining how physics-grounded methods enhance AI's real-world comprehension across structured symbolic reasoning, embodied systems, and generative models. Through rigorous analysis of recent advances, we advocate for intelligent systems that ground learning in both physical principles and embodied reasoning processes, transcending pattern recognition toward genuine understanding of physical laws. Our synthesis envisions next-generation world models capable of explaining physical phenomena and predicting future states, advancing safe, generalizable, and interpretable AI systems. We maintain a continuously updated resource at https://github.com/AI4Phys/Awesome-AI-for-Physics.
title Aligning Perception, Reasoning, Modeling and Interaction: A Survey on Physical AI
topic Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04978