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.
The chatbot can discuss the items it sees—but also manipulate them. When WIRED suggests Chen ask it to grab a piece of fruit, the arm reaches down, gently grasps the apple, and then moves it to another bin nearby. This hands-on chatbot is a step toward giving robots the kind of general and flexible capabilities exhibited by programs like ChatGPT. There is hope that AI could finally fix the long-standing difficulty of programming robots and having them do more than a narrow set of chores.
Abbeel says that models like RFM-1 could allow robots to turn their grippers to new tasks much more fluently. He compares Covariant’s strategy to how Tesla uses data from cars it has sold to train its self-driving algorithms. “It's kind of the same thing here that we're playing out,” he says.
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