Tanner, Herbert G.2023-10-172023-10-172023-08-08Tanner HG (2023) Editorial: Thought leaders in robotics and AI. Front. Robot. AI 10:1265092. doi: 10.3389/frobt.2023.12650922296-9144https://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/33562This article was originally published in Frontiers in Robotics and AI. The version of record is available at: https://doi.org/10.3389/frobt.2023.1265092. © 2023 Tanner.The purpose of this short Research Topic is to highlight some directions within the long-term research vision of selected robotics experts. The intention is to spark discussion and debated on these subjects as a means of promoting the importance of the associated technical problems and moving the research further forward. The three papers that comprise this Research Topic are titled, in alphabetical order of their authors: “From the lab to the field with evolutionary field robotics,” by Howard; “Progress and challenges in adaptive robotics,” by Nolfi; and “Towards understanding and synthesis of contact-rich anthropomorphic motions throught interactive cyber-physical human” [platfrom] by Yoshida.en-USevolutionary roboticsfield robotics (FR)cyber physical system (CPS)datasets and data qualitylearning and adaptationArticle