A very warm welcome to you on behalf of the conference chairs and committees.

Chairing the world’s first academic conference on ‘Industry 4.0’ (“Looking Beyond Industry 4.0”) funded by the EPSRC (UK’s NFS) held at University of Glasgow in 2017, I welcomed delegates with a message that “The ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution’, unlike its predecessors, is the first industrial revolution that is being manufactured a priori by human beings, and the first to elevate the industrial revolution that aided and liberated human physical labour to one that aids and liberates human mental labour, through artificial intelligence. It brings unprecedented opportunities!” 

Today, in the earnest of the AI age, where will the large language model go from here? How will its evolution towards the physically-aware world model lead robotics R&D with embodied intelligence? 

Join us and find out at the 7th International Symposium on Intelligent Robotic Systems (ISoIRS’27) & the 2nd Embodied Intelligence and World Model workshop (EIWM’27), to be held here at UESTC Shenzhen Institute for Advanced Study during 23-25 April 2027. 

We wish you a productive, rewarding and insightful experience at ISoIRS’27 & EIWM’27.

Professor Yun Li FIEEE
General Chair