The robot that understands a plain-language request

April 4, 2022

Google Research and Everyday Robots publish PaLM-SayCan: the language model turns requests like "I just worked out, bring me a snack and a drink" into sequences of actions that a robot carries out in a real kitchen. The era of programming robots by talking begins.

Source: Google Research

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