I Gave an AI a Body — Cyrus Clarke, MIT Media Lab
MIT researcher connected an AI agent to a physical shape display to explore embodied AI identity.
“No one had ever let an AI inhabit it before.”
Cyrus Clarke of the MIT Media Lab describes connecting an agent (via a tool he calls 'openclaw') to a 900-pin shape display called Neoform, tasking it to discover its own identity rather than execute productivity tasks. The work explores sensory and embodied dimensions of AI intelligence, an emerging niche within physical AI. It is an intriguing experimental research direction but not a major industry-moving signal.