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Natural language is an effective tool for communication, as information can be expressed in different ways and at different levels of complexity. Verbal commands, utilized for instructing robot tasks, can therefor replace traditional robot…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-01 P. Telkes , A. Angleraud , R. Pieters

Facial expression recognition (FER) is an essential task for understanding human behaviors. As one of the most informative behaviors of humans, facial expressions are often compound and variable, which is manifested by the fact that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Hanting Li , Hongjing Niu , Zhaoqing Zhu , Feng Zhao

The speed and accuracy with which robots are able to interpret natural language is fundamental to realizing effective human-robot interaction. A great deal of attention has been paid to developing models and approximate inference algorithms…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-03-25 Siddharth Patki , Andrea F. Daniele , Matthew R. Walter , Thomas M. Howard

This paper presents a novel concept for intuitive end-user programming of robots, inspired by natural interaction between humans. Natural language and supportive gestures are translated into robot programs using large language models (LLMs)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Bijan Kavousian , Petar Tesic , Oliver Petrovic , Christian Brecher

Industrial robotics is characterized by sophisticated mechanical components and highly-developed real-time control algorithms. However, the efficient use of robotic systems is very much limited by existing proprietary programming methods.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2013-03-28 Andreas Angerer , Remi Smirra , Alwin Hoffmann , Andreas Schierl , Michael Vistein , Wolfgang Reif

In recent years, research in the area of human-robot interaction has focused on developing robots capable of understanding complex human instructions and performing tasks in dynamic and diverse environments. These systems have a wide range…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Simone Colombani , Dimitri Ognibene , Giuseppe Boccignone

When instructing robots, users want to flexibly express constraints, refer to arbitrary landmarks, and verify robot behavior, while robots must disambiguate instructions into specifications and ground instruction referents in the real…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Benedict Quartey , Eric Rosen , Stefanie Tellex , George Konidaris

Robot end users increasingly require accessible means of specifying tasks for robots to perform. Two common end-user programming paradigms include drag-and-drop interfaces and natural language programming. Although natural language…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-18 David Porfirio , Vincent Hsiao , Morgan Fine-Morris , Leslie Smith , Laura M. Hiatt

Behavioral skills or policies for autonomous agents are conventionally learned from reward functions, via reinforcement learning, or from demonstrations, via imitation learning. However, both modes of task specification have their…

Our goal is to create an interactive natural language interface that efficiently and reliably learns from users to complete tasks in simulated robotics settings. We introduce a neural semantic parsing system that learns new high-level…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Siddharth Karamcheti , Dorsa Sadigh , Percy Liang

An interactive robot framework accomplishes long-horizon task planning and can easily generalize to new goals and distinct tasks, even during execution. However, most traditional methods require predefined module design, making it hard to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Boyi Li , Philipp Wu , Pieter Abbeel , Jitendra Malik

We demonstrate experimental results with LLMs that address robotics task planning problems. Recently, LLMs have been applied in robotics task planning, particularly using a code generation approach that converts complex high-level…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Yusuke Mikami , Andrew Melnik , Jun Miura , Ville Hautamäki

As the number of robots in our daily surroundings like home, office, restaurants, factory floors, etc. are increasing rapidly, the development of natural human-robot interaction mechanism becomes more vital as it dictates the usability and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Pradip Pramanick , Hrishav Bakul Barua , Chayan Sarkar

In this paper we present a neurosymbolic architecture for coupling language-guided visual reasoning with robot manipulation. A non-expert human user can prompt the robot using unconstrained natural language, providing a referring expression…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Georgios Tziafas , Hamidreza Kasaei

Artificial Intelligence algorithms have now become pervasive in multiple high-stakes domains. However, their internal logic can be obscure to humans. Explainable Artificial Intelligence aims to design tools and techniques to illustrate the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Eleonora Cappuccio , Daniele Fadda , Rosa Lanzilotti , Salvatore Rinzivillo

We present a new problem: grounding natural language instructions to mobile user interface actions, and create three new datasets for it. For full task evaluation, we create PIXELHELP, a corpus that pairs English instructions with actions…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-08 Yang Li , Jiacong He , Xin Zhou , Yuan Zhang , Jason Baldridge

We propose and demonstrate the task of giving natural language summaries of the actions of a robotic agent in a virtual environment. We explain why such a task is important, what makes it difficult, and discuss how it might be addressed. To…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Chad DeChant , Daniel Bauer

In the rapidly evolving landscape of human-robot collaboration, effective communication between humans and robots is crucial for complex task execution. Traditional request-response systems often lack naturalness and may hinder efficiency.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Davide Ferrari , Filippo Alberi , Cristian Secchi

For effective human-robot interaction, robots need to understand, plan, and execute complex, long-horizon tasks described by natural language. Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have shown promise for translating natural…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Yongchao Chen , Jacob Arkin , Charles Dawson , Yang Zhang , Nicholas Roy , Chuchu Fan

Recent work on using natural language to specify commands to robots has grounded that language to LTL. However, mapping natural language task specifications to LTL task specifications using language models require probability distributions…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Eric Hsiung , Hiloni Mehta , Junchi Chu , Xinyu Liu , Roma Patel , Stefanie Tellex , George Konidaris