{"id":1212315,"date":"2023-12-14T16:44:15","date_gmt":"2023-12-14T21:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1212315"},"modified":"2023-12-14T16:44:15","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T21:44:15","slug":"agilitys-digit-warehouse-robot-understands-natural-language-commands-thanks-to-ai-smarts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1212315","title":{"rendered":"Agility's Digit warehouse robot understands natural language commands thanks to AI smarts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Agility Robotics shared<\/a> a demo video Wednesday of one of its Digit robots<\/a> upgraded with AI. Although that may conjure terrifying pop-culture images of sentient sci-fi machines taking over the world, the demo video reveals something much more pedestrian, if not boring. The bipedal warehouse robot ploddingly works to complete a slightly puzzling task without direct human control or detailed guidance. In the clip, it slowly but successfully interprets and executes the command, \u201cTake the box that\u2019s the color of Darth Vader\u2019s lightsaber, and move it to the tallest tower in the front row.\u201d<\/p>\n

The company, which added a \u201chead\u201d and \u201chands\u201d to Digit<\/a> earlier this year, pitches the demonstration as a glimpse into how large language models (LLMs)<\/a> can enhance its humanoid machines. It suggests it\u2019s a natural fit, describing Digit as \u201ca physical embodiment of artificial intelligence.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe created a demo space with a series of numbered towers of several heights, as well as three boxes with multiple defining characteristics,\u201d Pras Velagapudi, Agility Robotics\u2019 vice president of innovation and chief architect, explained in the clip. \u201cDigit was given information about this environment, but was not given any specific information about its tasks. Just natural language commands of varying complexity to see if it could execute them.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The clip shows Digit\u2019s beat-by-beat inner monologue overlaid on the screen as the robot thinks its way through the task. For example, \u201cI should find out what commands I can use,\u201d \u201cI should first assess the environment to see what items and locations are available,\u201d and \u201cDarth Vader\u2019s light saber is red, and so the red box (box2) is the one I need to move. The tallest tower in the front row is tower4. I will first move to the location of box2.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

After moving to the location of the red box, Digit continues. \u201cNow that I\u2019m at the location of box2, I should pick it up,\u201d it reasons. It continues, \u201cNow that I have box2, I should move to the location of the tallest tower in the front row, which is tower4\u201d and \u201cNow that I\u2019m at tower4, I should place box2 on it.\u201d Finally, it declares its work finished: \u201cI believe I have completed the task, as I have moved the box that is the color of Darth Vader\u2019s light saber (red, box2) to the tallest tower in the front row (tower4).\u201d<\/p>\n

Agility Robotics, which pitches Digit as sparing human workers from the most taxing physical activities, says it created the demo to \u201cshow how LLMs could make our robots more versatile and faster to deploy.\u201d The company is building an Oregon factory<\/a> to produce 10,000 humanoid robots annually. It has also inked<\/a> a deal with Amazon for the retailer to test Digit in a Seattle-area facility. Fiction-fueled fears aside, the robots are much more likely to hurt humans by stealing their warehouse jobs than by shapeshifting, murdering innocents or reenacting other Hollywood-fueled dystopian nightmares.<\/p>\n

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This article originally appeared on Engadget at https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/agilitys-digit-warehouse-robot-understands-natural-language-commands-thanks-to-ai-smarts-214415066.html?src=rss
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