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Large language models (LLMs) have emerged as powerful and general solutions to many natural language tasks. However, many of the most important applications of language generation are interactive, where an agent has to talk to a person to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Joey Hong , Sergey Levine , Anca Dragan

Interactive robot learning is a challenging problem as the robot is present with human users who expect the robot to learn novel skills to solve novel tasks perpetually with sample efficiency. In this work we present a framework for robots…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Weiwei Gu , Suresh Kondepudi , Anmol Gupta , Lixiao Huang , Nakul Gopalan

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

We propose Text2Motion, a language-based planning framework enabling robots to solve sequential manipulation tasks that require long-horizon reasoning. Given a natural language instruction, our framework constructs both a task- and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Kevin Lin , Christopher Agia , Toki Migimatsu , Marco Pavone , Jeannette Bohg

Ability to generate intelligent and generalizable facial expressions is essential for building human-like social robots. At present, progress in this field is hindered by the fact that each facial expression needs to be programmed by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Boyuan Chen , Yuhang Hu , Lianfeng Li , Sara Cummings , Hod Lipson

This paper presents a dataset collected from natural dialogs which enables to test the ability of dialog systems to learn new facts from user utterances throughout the dialog. This interactive learning will help with one of the most…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-05-17 Miroslav Vodolán , Filip Jurčíček

Our goal is for robots to follow natural language instructions like "put the towel next to the microwave." But getting large amounts of labeled data, i.e. data that contains demonstrations of tasks labeled with the language instruction, is…

The number of robots deployed in our daily surroundings is ever-increasing. Even in the industrial set-up, the use of coworker robots is increasing rapidly. These cohabitant robots perform various tasks as instructed by co-located human…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Pradip Pramanick , Chayan Sarkar , Indrajit Bhattacharya

Full integration of robots into real-life applications necessitates their ability to interpret and execute natural language directives from untrained users. Given the inherent variability in human language, equivalent directives may be…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Eran Beeri Bamani , Eden Nissinman , Rotem Atari , Nevo Heimann Saadon , Avishai Sintov

Large Language Models (LLMs) are compact representations of all public knowledge of our physical environment and animal and human behaviors. The application of LLMs to robotics may offer a path to highly capable robots that perform well…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-25 OpenMind , Shaohong Zhong , Adam Zhou , Boyuan Chen , Homin Luo , Jan Liphardt

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

Efforts towards endowing robots with the ability to speak have benefited from recent advancements in natural language processing, in particular large language models. However, current language models are not fully incremental, as their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Casey Kennington , Pierre Lison , David Schlangen

Large language models have given social robots the ability to autonomously engage in open-domain conversations. However, they are still missing a fundamental social skill: making use of the multiple modalities that carry social…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Ruben Janssens , Tony Belpaeme

"Natural Language," whether spoken and attended to by humans, or processed and generated by computers, requires networked structures that reflect creative processes in semantic, syntactic, phonetic, linguistic, social, emotional, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-06-29 Joseph Corneli , Miriam Corneli

The goal of this paper is to improve the performance and reliability of vision-language-action (VLA) models through iterative online interaction. Since collecting policy rollouts in the real world is expensive, we investigate whether a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Yanjiang Guo , Tony Lee , Lucy Xiaoyang Shi , Jianyu Chen , Percy Liang , Chelsea Finn

Human intelligence can remarkably adapt quickly to new tasks and environments. Starting from a very young age, humans acquire new skills and learn how to solve new tasks either by imitating the behavior of others or by following provided…

Over the last few years, there has been growing interest in learning models for physically grounded language understanding tasks, such as the popular blocks world domain. These works typically view this problem as a single-step process, in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Nikhil Mehta , Dan Goldwasser

Natural language is often the easiest and most convenient modality for humans to specify tasks for robots. However, learning to ground language to behavior typically requires impractical amounts of diverse, language-annotated demonstrations…

Natural language provides a widely accessible and expressive interface for robotic agents. To understand language in complex environments, agents must reason about the full range of language inputs and their correspondence to the world.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-03 Stephanie Zhou , Alane Suhr , Yoav Artzi

The impressive capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) have led to various efforts to enable robots to be controlled through natural language instructions, opening exciting possibilities for human-robot interaction The goal is for the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Seif Ismail , Antonio Arbues , Ryan Cotterell , René Zurbrügg , Carmen Amo Alonso