Robots operating in human spaces must be able to engage in natural language interaction with people, both understanding and executing instructions, and using conversation to resolve ambiguity and recover from mistakes. To study this, we introduce TEACh, a dataset of over 3,000 human--human, interactive dialogues to complete household tasks in simulation. A Commander with access to oracle information about a task communicates in natural language with a Follower. The Follower navigates through and interacts with the environment to complete tasks varying in complexity from "Make Coffee" to "Prepare Breakfast", asking questions and getting additional information from the Commander. We propose three benchmarks using TEACh to study embodied intelligence challenges, and we evaluate initial models' abilities in dialogue understanding, language grounding, and task execution.
@article{arxiv.2110.00534,
title = {TEACh: Task-driven Embodied Agents that Chat},
author = {Aishwarya Padmakumar and Jesse Thomason and Ayush Shrivastava and Patrick Lange and Anjali Narayan-Chen and Spandana Gella and Robinson Piramuthu and Gokhan Tur and Dilek Hakkani-Tur},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.00534},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
Accepted at AAAI 2022; 7 pages main, 28 pages total, 29 figures; Version 3 uses a new test set for EDH instances that restrict evaluation to state changes only on task-relevant objects