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Introduction – Two Minds Inside One Robot
Modern embodied AI is drawing inspiration from human cognition. Psychologist Daniel Kahneman famously described a System 1 (fast, intuitive thinking) and System 2 (slow, deliberative reasoning). In robotics, researchers are exploring whether a dual-system approach can give robots the reflexes of an athlete and the deliberation of a chess master. The 2025 paper “Hume: Introducing System-2 Thinking in Visual-Language-Action Model” steps boldly into
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