In a cluttered open-plan office in Mountain View, California, a tall and slender wheeled robot has been busy playing tour guide and informal office helper—thanks to a large language model upgrade, ...

The new language for robotics is called ‘ComText,’ which is an abbreviation of ‘commands in context’ and it has been developed over several years by MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence ...

AI language skills let you command robots in plain English. The same AI tech lets the robots navigate the chaos of the real world. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

Over the past few decades, robotics researchers have developed a wide range of increasingly advanced robots that can autonomously complete various real-world tasks. To be successfully deployed in real ...

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Robot learning and language acquisition represent an interdisciplinary endeavour combining robotics, artificial intelligence and cognitive science. This field studies how autonomous systems can ...