To get CaP to write new code for specific tasks, the team provided it with “hints,” like what APIs or tools were available to it, and a few instructions-to-code paired examples.

The differences in behavior between the simplest robot and the most advanced one, nigh indistinguishable from a human being, is simply the sequence of these two digits.

Researchers from Google's Robotics team have open-sourced SayCan, a robot control method that uses a large language model (LLM) to plan a sequence of robotic actions to achieve a user-specified goal.

These instructions are sent to another GPT-4 agent that reasons over the code, makes the necessary corrections and returns the action sequence to the robot. The refined action recipe and code are ...

Late last week, Google research scientist Fei Xia sat in the center of a bright, open-plan kitchen and typed a command into a laptop connected to a one-armed, wheeled robot resembling a large ...

KinderLabs Robotics Kibo robot kit can help teach younger kids to code, ... for example, lets you attach ... figuring out why their sequences or conditionals weren’t working as expected.

On the plus side: If we're already thinking about robots — sci-fi or otherwise — we may be more willing to embrace a code that governs their design for real life.