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We present an embodied AI system which receives open-ended natural language instructions from a human, and controls two arms to collaboratively accomplish potentially long-horizon tasks over a large workspace. Our system is modular: it…

Task-oriented dialogue focuses on conversational agents that participate in user-initiated dialogues on domain-specific topics. In contrast to chatbots, which simply seek to sustain open-ended meaningful discourse, existing task-oriented…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-08-16 Mihail Eric , Christopher D. Manning

A robot needs contextual awareness, effective speech production and complementing non-verbal gestures for successful communication in society. In this paper, we present our end-to-end system that tries to enhance the effectiveness of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Bishal Ghosh , Abhinav Dhall , Ekta Singla

Goal-oriented conversational agents are becoming prevalent in our daily lives. For these systems to engage users and achieve their goals, they need to exhibit appropriate social behavior as well as provide informative replies that guide…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Yi-Chia Wang , Alexandros Papangelis , Runze Wang , Zhaleh Feizollahi , Gokhan Tur , Robert Kraut

As general intelligent agents are poised for widespread deployment in diverse households, evaluation tailored to each unique unseen 3D environment has become a critical prerequisite. However, existing benchmarks suffer from severe data…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Xinyi He , Ying Yang , Chuanjian Fu , Sihan Guo , Songchun Zhu , Lifeng Fan , Zhenliang Zhang , Yujia Peng

Theory of Mind (ToM), the ability to track others epistemic state, makes humans efficient collaborators. AI agents need the same capacity in multi agent settings, yet existing benchmarks mostly test literal ToM by asking direct belief…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Gurusha Juneja , Dylan Lu , Saaket Agashe , Parth Diwane , Edward Gunn , Jayanth Srinivasa , Gaowen Liu , William Yang Wang , Yali Du , Xin Eric Wang

Recent advancements have enabled human-robot collaboration through physical assistance and verbal guidance. However, limitations persist in coordinating robots' physical motions and speech in response to real-time changes in human behavior…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Ravi Tejwani , Chengyuan Ma , Paco Gomez-Paz , Paolo Bonato , H. Harry Asada

We introduce HandMeThat, a benchmark for a holistic evaluation of instruction understanding and following in physical and social environments. While previous datasets primarily focused on language grounding and planning, HandMeThat…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Yanming Wan , Jiayuan Mao , Joshua B. Tenenbaum

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

Humans naturally employ linguistic instructions to convey knowledge, a process that proves significantly more complex for machines, especially within the context of multitask robotic manipulation environments. Natural language, moreover,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Boyuan Zheng , Jianlong Zhou , Fang Chen

Artificial agents, particularly humanoid robots, interact with their environment, objects, and people using cameras, actuators, and physical presence. Their communication methods are often pre-programmed, limiting their actions and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Federico Tavella , Aphrodite Galata , Angelo Cangelosi

Recently, the concept of embodied intelligence has been widely accepted and popularized, leading people to naturally consider the potential for commercialization in this field. In this work, we propose a specific commercial scenario…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Zhuoqun Xu , Yang Liu , Xiaoqi Li , Jiyao Zhang , Hao Dong

Adapting autonomous agents for real-world industrial, domestic, and other daily tasks is currently gaining momentum. However, in global or cross-lingual application contexts, ensuring effective interaction with the environment and executing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Linus Nwankwo , Bjoern Ellensohn , Ozan Özdenizci , Elmar Rueckert

Most often, chat-bots are built to solve the purpose of a search engine or a human assistant: Their primary goal is to provide information to the user or help them complete a task. However, these chat-bots are incapable of responding to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-11-26 Parag Agrawal , Anshuman Suri , Tulasi Menon

Existing benchmarks for conversational AI agents simulate single-control environments, where only the AI agent can use tools to interact with the world, while the user remains a passive information provider. This differs from real-world…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Victor Barres , Honghua Dong , Soham Ray , Xujie Si , Karthik Narasimhan

AI agents today are mostly siloed - they either retrieve and reason over vast amount of digital information and knowledge obtained online; or interact with the physical world through embodied perception, planning and action - but rarely…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Yining Hong , Rui Sun , Bingxuan Li , Xingcheng Yao , Maxine Wu , Alexander Chien , Da Yin , Ying Nian Wu , Zhecan James Wang , Kai-Wei Chang

The traditional process of building interactive machine learning systems can be viewed as a teacher-learner interaction scenario where the machine-learners are trained by one or more human-teachers. In this work, we explore the idea of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Nalin Chhibber , Edith Law

A robot's ability to understand or ground natural language instructions is fundamentally tied to its knowledge about the surrounding world. We present an approach to grounding natural language utterances in the context of factual…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-11-19 Rohan Paul , Andrei Barbu , Sue Felshin , Boris Katz , Nicholas Roy

Increasingly complex and autonomous robots are being deployed in real-world environments with far-reaching consequences. High-stakes scenarios, such as emergency response or offshore energy platform and nuclear inspections, require robot…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-03-13 Francisco J. Chiyah Garcia , José Lopes , Helen Hastie

We investigate the use of Large Language Models (LLMs) to equip neural robotic agents with human-like social and cognitive competencies, for the purpose of open-ended human-robot conversation and collaboration. We introduce a modular and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Philipp Allgeuer , Hassan Ali , Stefan Wermter