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Sure. Yet consensus among "brain scientists" has long been that locomotion and the ability to explore the physical world is essential (or even central) to how consciousness develops and works in humans. Which in turn would seem pretty important for an institute working on cutting edge AI?

One of the reasons ML-based AI is pretty dumb still is possibly that this autonomous exploration side of AI is largely ignored.

It all seems to tie back into what Judea Pearl talks about in his "book of Why" (how you can't model intelligence without modelling learning of causal inference) or what Jeff Hawkins explores with his "reference frames of reference frames of the world" 1000 brains theory.