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The Quest to Give AI Chatbots a Hand—and an Arm
Robotics startup Covariant is experimenting with a ChatGPT-style chatbot that can control a robotic arm, as a way to create machines that can be more helpful in the physical world.
Like those behind ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, and other chatbots it has been trained with large amounts of text, but it has also been fed video and hardware control and motion data from tens of millions of examples of robot movements sourced from the labor in the physical world. Covariant, founded in 2017, currently sells software that uses machine learning to let robot arms pick items out of bins in warehouses but they are usually limited to the task they’ve been training for. Abeel and his Covariant colleagues are far from the only roboticists hoping that the capabilities of the large language models behind ChatGPT and similar programs might bring about a revolution in robotics.
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