Minimal Embodiment Enables Efficient Learning of Number Concepts in Robot
Robots are increasingly entering human-interactive scenarios that require understanding of quantity. How intelligent systems acquire abstract numerical concepts from sensorimotor experience remains a fundamental challenge in cognitive science and artificial intelligence. Here we investigate embodied numerical learning using a neural network model trained to perform sequential counting through naturalistic robotic interaction with a Franka Panda manipulator. We demonstrate that embodied models achieve 96.8\% counting accuracy with only 10\% of training data, compared to 60.6\% for vision-only baselines. This advantage persists when visual-motor correspondences are randomized, indicating that embodiment functions as a structural prior that regularizes learning rather than as an information source. The model spontaneously develops biologically plausible representations: number-selective units with logarithmic tuning, mental number line organization, Weber-law scaling, and rotational dynamics encoding numerical magnitude ($r = 0.97$, slope $= 30.6°$/count). The learning trajectory parallels children's developmental progression from subset-knowers to cardinal-principle knowers. These findings demonstrate that minimal embodiment can ground abstract concepts, improve data efficiency, and yield interpretable representations aligned with biological cognition, which may contribute to embodied mathematics tutoring and safety-critical industrial applications.
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