By Chris Stokel-Walker
AI makes it easier to talk to robots
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Telling a robot where to go without having to speak like a robot that is, with natural language commands is now a lot easier, thanks to a new model based on how people actually speak when giving directions.
Currently many robots use simultaneous localisation and mapping (SLAM) to know where they are in a given landscape. They have to concurrently keep track of their location on a map, while constantly updating their knowledge of the environment.
SLAM is powerful and is great, says Jason Corso at the University of Michigan …