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Position: Olfaction Standardization is Essential for the Advancement of Embodied Artificial Intelligence
Kordel K. France, Rohith Peddi, Nik Dennler, Ovidiu Daescu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00398

Position: Olfaction Standardization is Essential for the Advancement of Embodied Artificial Intelligence
Despite extraordinary progress in artificial intelligence (AI), modern systems remain incomplete representations of human cognition. Vision, audition, and language have received disproportionate attention due to well-defined benchmarks, standardized datasets, and consensus-driven scientific foundations. In contrast, olfaction - a high-bandwidth, evolutionarily critical sense - has been largely overlooked. This omission presents a foundational gap in the construction of truly embodied and ethica…

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