Fig. 1

A typical AI system interacts with a human user (search engine, recommendation tool, translation engine...). The human user launches the request and the result is intended to be perceived by him or her and there is in general no other connection to the real world. The system is thus not active in the real world, only the human is. A robotic system is active. It directly interacts with its environment through its perceptions and actions. Humans may be part of the environment, but otherwise are not involved in robot control loop, at least for autonomous robots