John Murray

Beyond the Prompt: Why Physical Embodiment Still Matters for LLM-Powered Conversational Agents

Large Language Models (LLMs) have transformed conversational AI, but an unresolved human-robot interaction question remains: “With conversational agents, does physical embodiment matter?”. This paper compares an embodied Pepper robot with a non-embodied laptop interface driven by the same LLM - Llama 3.2 7B parameter m...