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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

The human language is one of the most natural interfaces for humans to interact with robots. This paper presents a robot system that retrieves everyday objects with unconstrained natural language descriptions. A core issue for the system is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-07-19 Mohit Shridhar , David Hsu

The ability to learn and refine behavior after deployment has become ever more important for robots as we design them to operate in unstructured environments like households. In this work, we design a new learning system based on large…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Huihan Liu , Alice Chen , Yuke Zhu , Adith Swaminathan , Andrey Kolobov , Ching-An Cheng

The control of robots for manipulation tasks generally relies on visual input. Recent advances in vision-language models (VLMs) enable the use of natural language instructions to condition visual input and control robots in a wider range of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Chenglin Cui , Chaoran Zhu , Changjae Oh , Andrea Cavallaro

As human-robot collaboration is becoming more widespread, there is a need for a more natural way of communicating with the robot. This includes combining data from several modalities together with the context of the situation and background…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Petr Vanc , Radoslav Skoviera , Karla Stepanova

Foundation models have made significant strides in various applications, including text-to-image generation, panoptic segmentation, and natural language processing. This paper presents Instruct2Act, a framework that utilizes Large Language…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Siyuan Huang , Zhengkai Jiang , Hao Dong , Yu Qiao , Peng Gao , Hongsheng Li

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated the potential to perform high-level planning. Yet, it remains a challenge for LLMs to comprehend low-level commands, such as joint angle targets or motor torques. This paper proposes an…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Yujin Tang , Wenhao Yu , Jie Tan , Heiga Zen , Aleksandra Faust , Tatsuya Harada

Trustworthiness is a crucial concept in the context of human-robot interaction. Cooperative robots must be transparent regarding their decision-making process, especially when operating in a human-oriented environment. This paper presents a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Tuba Girgin , Emre Girgin , Yigit Yildirim , Emre Ugur , Mehmet Haklidir

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

This paper presents a novel approach to enhance autonomous robotic manipulation using the Large Language Model (LLM) for logical inference, converting high-level language commands into sequences of executable motion functions. The proposed…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Haokun Liu , Yaonan Zhu , Kenji Kato , Izumi Kondo , Tadayoshi Aoyama , Yasuhisa Hasegawa

Adjusting robot behavior to human preferences can require intensive human feedback, preventing quick adaptation to new users and changing circumstances. Moreover, current approaches typically treat user preferences as a reward, which…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Jakob Thumm , Christopher Agia , Marco Pavone , Matthias Althoff

A long-term goal of artificial intelligence is to have an agent execute commands communicated through natural language. In many cases the commands are grounded in a visual environment shared by the human who gives the command and the agent.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-08-27 Thierry Deruyttere , Simon Vandenhende , Dusan Grujicic , Luc Van Gool , Marie-Francine Moens

Imitation learning is a popular approach for teaching motor skills to robots. However, most approaches focus on extracting policy parameters from execution traces alone (i.e., motion trajectories and perceptual data). No adequate…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Simon Stepputtis , Joseph Campbell , Mariano Phielipp , Stefan Lee , Chitta Baral , Heni Ben Amor

With the increasing prevalence and diversity of robots interacting in the real world, there is need for flexible, on-the-fly planning and cooperation. Large Language Models are starting to be explored in a multimodal setup for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-01 William Hunt , Toby Godfrey , Mohammad D. Soorati

We present Lang2Motion, a framework for language-guided point trajectory generation by aligning motion manifolds with joint embedding spaces. Unlike prior work focusing on human motion or video synthesis, we generate explicit trajectories…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Bishoy Galoaa , Xiangyu Bai , Sarah Ostadabbas

Human intention-based systems enable robots to perceive and interpret user actions to interact with humans and adapt to their behavior proactively. Therefore, intention prediction is pivotal in creating a natural interaction with social…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Hassan Ali , Philipp Allgeuer , Stefan Wermter

Vision-language-action models (VLAs) have shown generalization capabilities in robotic manipulation tasks by inheriting from vision-language models (VLMs) and learning action generation. Most VLA models focus on interpreting vision and…

The ability to communicate with robots using natural language is a significant step forward in human-robot interaction. However, accurately translating verbal commands into physical actions is promising, but still presents challenges.…

Embodied robots which can interact with their environment and neighbours are increasingly being used as a test case to develop Artificial Intelligence. This creates a need for multimodal robot controllers that can operate across different…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-05 William Hunt , Sarvapali D. Ramchurn , Mohammad D. Soorati

Language-conditioned robot manipulation is an emerging field aimed at enabling seamless communication and cooperation between humans and robotic agents by teaching robots to comprehend and execute instructions conveyed in natural language.…