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Covariant is building ChatGPT for robots


Covariant this week announced the launch of RFM-1 (Robotics Foundation Model 1). Peter Chen, the cofounder and CEO of the U.C. Berkeley artificial

For now, Covariant’s software is largely deployed on industrial robotic arms doing a variety of familiar warehouse tasks, including jobs like bin picking. As long as there are minimal changes to the task at hand, a robot arm can do its work over and over again, unimpeded, until it’s time to call it a day and collect the golden pocket watch for its years of loyal service. Input a text command like, “pick up the apple” by typing or voice, and the system uses its training data (shape, color, size, etc) to identify the object in front of it that most closely matches that description.

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