Name:Electronics Brief Introduction: Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292, IF: 2.6) is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal on the science of electronics and its applications. Specia Issue: Embodied Intelligence and Collaborative Autonomy: Perception, Planning and Control

Dear Colleagues,

The rapid evolution of autonomous systems has positioned the deep integration of physical robotic platforms with intelligent algorithms as a critical scientific frontier. This Special Issue, titled “Embodied Intelligence and Collaborative Autonomy: Perception, Planning and Control,” will be launched in conjunction with the 2026 8th International Conference on Robotics, Intelligent Control and Artificial Intelligence (RICAI 2026). It invites contributions that explore how perception, planning, and control are fundamentally shaped by—and shape—robots' physical embodiment and interaction with the environment.

The Special Issue highlights advancements in embodied perception, where multimodal sensing and real-time understanding are tightly coupled with robotic morphology and action. It further explores embodied planning, emphasizing how autonomous systems reason and make decisions adaptively in complex, unstructured settings. Complementing these foci is a focus on embodied control, integrating cooperative strategies, and multiphysics coordination to enable intelligent autonomy across diverse domains, ranging from industrial automation and service robotics to healthcare and autonomous transportation.

Artificial Intelligence serves as the unifying thread across these interconnected domains. By leveraging deep learning, foundation models, computer vision, and control theory, researchers are advancing robots' capabilities in perception, reasoning, decision-making, and interaction—all grounded in and constrained by physical embodiment. The scope also encompasses emerging paradigms such as generative AI for motion planning, edge-enabled distributed intelligence, and trusted AI mechanisms for safe human–robot collaboration. By bringing together contributions ranging from theoretical foundations to engineering applications, this Special Issue fosters cross-disciplinary dialogue and shapes the future of autonomous systems, paving the way for safer, smarter, and more collaborative intelligent robots that perceive, plan, and act as unified embodied agents. 

•Robot Perception and Environmental Interaction;

•Multimodal Perception and Sensor Fusion;

•Autonomous Navigation and Dynamic Obstacle Avoidance;

•Soft and Bionic Robots;

•Robot Learning and Intelligent Decision-Making;

•Micro and Nano Robots;

•Robot Motion and Control.

•Robot Cooperative Control;

•Advanced Control Algorithm Design;

•Industry 4.0 and Intelligent Manufacturing;

•Intelligent Control of Energy Systems;

•Autonomous Driving and Intelligent Traffic Control;

•Networked Control Systems;

•Quantum Control Algorithms;

•Multiphysics Collaborative Control;

•Intelligent Sensors;

•Intelligent Communication and Collaborative Control;

•Sensing and Cognitive Communication.

•Deep Learning;

•Frontiers in Computer Vision;

•Big Models and General Artificial Intelligence;

•Reinforcement Learning and Decision Intelligence;

•AI and Scientific Computing;

•Edge and Embedded AI;

•Generative AI and Robot Simulation;

•Trusted AI and Security Verification;

•Brain Computing and Bionic AI.