Blue-collar work is often highly collaborative, embodied, and situated in shared physical environments, yet most research on collaborative AI has focused on white-collar work. This position paper explores how the embodied nature of AI agents can support team collaboration and communication in co-located blue-collar workplaces. From the context of our newly started CAI-BLUE research project, we present two speculative scenarios from industrial and maintenance contexts that illustrate how embodied AI agents can support shared situational awareness and facilitate inclusive communication across experience levels. We outline open questions related to embodied AI agent design around worker inclusion, agency, transformation of blue-collar collaboration practices over time, and forms of acceptable AI embodiments. We argue that embodiment is not just an aesthetic choice but should become a socio-material design strategy of AI systems in blue-collar workplaces.

翻译：蓝领工作通常具有高度协作性、具身性，并处于共享物理环境中，然而现有关于协作式AI的研究多集中于白领工作领域。本立场论文探讨了AI代理的具身特性如何支持协同定位蓝领工作场所中的团队协作与沟通。基于我们新启动的CAI-BLUE研究项目背景，我们提出了来自工业与维护场景的两个前瞻性案例，阐释具身AI代理如何支持共享情境感知并促进跨经验层级的包容性沟通。我们围绕工人包容性、代理权限、蓝领协作实践随时间推移的转型，以及可接受的AI具身形态等维度，阐述了具身AI代理设计相关的开放性问题。我们认为，具身性不仅是美学选择，更应成为蓝领工作场所中AI系统的社会-物质设计策略。