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High-level human instructions often correspond to behaviors with multiple implicit steps. In order for robots to be useful in the real world, they must be able to to reason over both motions and intermediate goals implied by human…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-03-21 Chris Paxton , Yonatan Bisk , Jesse Thomason , Arunkumar Byravan , Dieter Fox

Robot learning holds tremendous promise to unlock the full potential of flexible, general, and dexterous robot systems, as well as to address some of the deepest questions in artificial intelligence. However, bringing robot learning to the…

It is difficult to create robust, reusable, and reactive behaviors for robots that can be easily extended and combined. Frameworks such as Behavior Trees are flexible but difficult to characterize, especially when designing reactions and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-08-07 Chris Paxton , Nathan Ratliff , Clemens Eppner , Dieter Fox

With the rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs) and robotics, service robots are increasingly becoming an integral part of daily life, offering a wide range of services in complex environments. To deliver these services…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Shaohan Bian , Ying Zhang , Guohui Tian , Zhiqiang Miao , Edmond Q. Wu , Simon X. Yang , Changchun Hua

Replicating human-level intelligence in the execution of embodied tasks remains challenging due to the unconstrained nature of real-world environments. Novel use of large language models (LLMs) for task planning seeks to address the…

Large-language models (LLMs) hold significant promise in improving human-robot interaction, offering advanced conversational skills and versatility in managing diverse, open-ended user requests in various tasks and domains. Despite the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Callie Y. Kim , Christine P. Lee , Bilge Mutlu

We introduce TAPAS (Task-based Adaptation and Planning using AgentS), a multi-agent framework that integrates Large Language Models (LLMs) with symbolic planning to solve complex tasks without the need for manually defined environment…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Harisankar Babu , Philipp Schillinger , Tamim Asfour

While recent advances in vision-language models have accelerated the development of language-guided robot planners, their black-box nature often lacks safety guarantees and interpretability crucial for real-world deployment. Conversely,…

Existing robot policies predominantly adopt the task-centric approach, requiring end-to-end task data collection. This results in limited generalization to new tasks and difficulties in pinpointing errors within long-horizon, multi-stage…

Language models (LMs) possess a strong capability to comprehend natural language, making them effective in translating human instructions into detailed plans for simple robot tasks. Nevertheless, it remains a significant challenge to handle…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Xiaopan Zhang , Hao Qin , Fuquan Wang , Yue Dong , Jiachen Li

GUI task automation streamlines repetitive tasks, but existing LLM or VLM-based planner-executor agents suffer from brittle generalization, high latency, and limited long-horizon coherence. Their reliance on single-shot reasoning or static…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Seoyoung Lee , Seonbin Yoon , Seongbeen Lee , Hyesoo Kim , Joo Yong Sim

Automated task planning algorithms have been developed to help robots complete complex tasks that require multiple actions. Most of those algorithms have been developed for "closed worlds" assuming complete world knowledge is provided.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Yan Ding , Xiaohan Zhang , Saeid Amiri , Nieqing Cao , Hao Yang , Chad Esselink , Shiqi Zhang

Robots are required to execute increasingly complex instructions in dynamic environments, which can lead to a disconnect between the user's intent and the robot's representation of the instructions. In this paper we present a natural…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-10-05 Adrian Boteanu , Jacob Arkin , Siddharth Patki , Thomas Howard , Hadas Kress-Gazit

In this paper, we propose a robot oriented knowledge management system based on the use of the Prolog language. Our framework hinges on a special organisation of knowledge base that enables: 1. its efficient population from natural language…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Enrico Saccon , Ahmet Tikna , Davide De Martini , Edoardo Lamon , Marco Roveri , Luigi Palopoli

Object manipulation for rearrangement into a specific goal state is a significant task for collaborative robots. Accurately determining object placement is a key challenge, as misalignment can increase task complexity and the risk of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Guanqun Cao , Ryan Mckenna , Erich Graf , John Oyekan

Bimanual robotic manipulation provides significant versatility, but also presents an inherent challenge due to the complexity involved in the spatial and temporal coordination between two hands. Existing works predominantly focus on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Kun Chu , Xufeng Zhao , Cornelius Weber , Stefan Wermter

Current soft prompt methods yield limited performance when applied to small-sized models (fewer than a billion parameters). Deep prompt-tuning, which entails prepending parameters in each layer for enhanced efficacy, presents a solution for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Mingqi Li , Feng Luo

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

Prompt engineering has made significant contributions to the era of large language models, yet its effectiveness depends on the skills of a prompt author. This paper introduces $\textit{iPrOp}$, a novel interactive prompt optimization…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Jiahui Li , Roman Klinger

In this study, we are interested in imbuing robots with the capability of physically-grounded task planning. Recent advancements have shown that large language models (LLMs) possess extensive knowledge useful in robotic tasks, especially in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Yingdong Hu , Fanqi Lin , Tong Zhang , Li Yi , Yang Gao