# Embodied AI > **Machine-Evolution Nexus:** [[articles/Digital Darwinism and the Invisible World of Machine Evolution|Digital Darwinism and the Invisible World of Machine Evolution]] places this node within the history and governance of substrate-independent evolution. **Domain:** Artificial Intelligence / Robotics **Doc Type:** Canonical Wiki Node **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition Embodied AI learns or acts through a body situated in a physical or simulated environment. ## Nexus Context Embodiment supplies environmental feedback, resource limits and reproductive pathways that could make AI evolution more ecological than model training alone. ## Evidence Boundary A robot body does not establish sentience, and simulation embodiment differs from biological metabolism and vulnerability. Claims must specify the operative substrate. ## Relationships [[wiki/Agentic AI|Agentic AI]], [[wiki/Embodied Cognition|Embodied Cognition]], [[wiki/Evolvable AI|Evolvable AI]], [[wiki/Remote Embodiment|Remote Embodiment]] ## Sources / Provenance - Embodied-AI and robotics literature; Müller, Steels and Szathmáry (2026).