Large language models and multimodal large language models have revolutionized artificial intelligence recently. An increasing number of regions are now embracing these advanced technologies. Within this context, robot coding education is garnering increasing attention. To teach young children how to code and compete in robot challenges, large language models are being utilized for robot code explanation, generation, and modification. In this paper, we highlight an important trend in robot coding education. We test several mainstream large language models on both traditional coding tasks and the more challenging task of robot code generation, which includes block diagrams. Our results show that GPT-4V outperforms other models in all of our tests but struggles with generating block diagram images.
@article{arxiv.2402.06116,
title = {LLMs for Coding and Robotics Education},
author = {Peng Shu and Huaqin Zhao and Hanqi Jiang and Yiwei Li and Shaochen Xu and Yi Pan and Zihao Wu and Zhengliang Liu and Guoyu Lu and Le Guan and Gong Chen and Xianqiao Wang Tianming Liu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.06116},
year = {2024}
}