Low-cost robotic arms have been used to clean liquids spilled on surfaces
Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley and ETH Zurich have used the power of OpenAI’s GPT-4o large language model to train low-cost robotic arms to clean up liquids spilled on surfaces.
The test reveals an interesting demonstration of how AI language models, such as the popular chatbot ChatGPT, can be used to carry out tasks that, at first glance, seem unrelated to language.
It took the team just four days to train the robotic arms, which only had an ordinary sponge, to detect an imminent leak.
According to UC Berkeley robotics expert Jannik Grothusen, about 100 projections were performed to train the arm movements.
We built a cleaning robot powered by GPT-4o.
– $250 for robotic arms
– 4 days to build
Open source is truly democratizing the field of robotics.@KasparJanssen pic.twitter.com/DEJECQML0k
— Jannik Grothusen (@JannikGrothusen) November 2, 2024
Through a post on Linkedin, Grothusen commented that the experiment is a “proof of concept for a robot control architecture” that includes a “visual language model for interaction, reasoning and orchestration between humans and robots”.
It also highlights how open source is starting to popularize the robotics industry, considering the affordable cost of the robotic arm and a completely free learning algorithm. However, it is not yet known whether the concept will one day evolve into a full-fledged cleaning robot, capable of removing stains in the home.
Source: Terra
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