{
  "id": 18411,
  "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.10915v1",
  "title": "ComBodied Agents: a New Paradigm of Human-Centric Agentic AI",
  "summary": "After an older adult misses a medication dose, a software agent can send another reminder and an embodied agent can bring the medication. Yet neither explains whether the person forgot, is confused, has side effects, or deliberately refused, nor what support is appropriate. This reveals a structural gap in Agentic AI: Digital Agents primarily transform software states, while Embodied Agents transform physical states; neither makes a person's evolving state and agency the primary object of modeli",
  "authors": "Qianggang Ding, Xingyao Wang, Rui Feng, Zhibin Wang, Feixiang Wang, Kelong Mao et al.",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "agents-autonomy",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-08-11T13:35:58.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-12T05:10:43.828Z",
  "source_slug": "arxiv-ethics",
  "source_name": "arXiv",
  "source_homepage": "https://arxiv.org",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/18411",
  "original_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.10915v1",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}