New AI System Helps Robots Navigate Unfamiliar Homes Via Voice Commands
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Researchers equipped a commercial robot with open-source AI to move objects around unfamiliar rooms based on natural language commands.
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The system, called OK-Robot, had a 58.5% success rate in tests across 10 rooms. In less cluttered rooms, success was 82.4%.
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OK-Robot uses pre-trained navigation and grasping models, as well as vision-language AI to understand commands and surroundings.
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The system only requires a 3D video of the room to start working, with no special training needed.
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The simplicity of OK-Robot suggests domestic robots could be closer than the decade timeline some experts predict, especially if more work builds on this research.