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Large Language Models (LLMs) have showcased remarkable capabilities in following human instructions. However, recent studies have raised concerns about the robustness of LLMs when prompted with instructions combining textual adversarial…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Yuansen Zhang , Xiao Wang , Zhiheng Xi , Han Xia , Tao Gui , Qi Zhang , Xuanjing Huang

Integrating Large Language Models (VLMs) and Vision-Language Models (VLMs) with robotic systems enables robots to process and understand complex natural language instructions and visual information. However, a fundamental challenge remains:…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Yuhang Hu , Yunzhe Wang , Ruibo Liu , Zhou Shen , Hod Lipson

Recent large language models (LLMs) are capable of planning robot actions. In this paper, we explore how LLMs can be used for planning actions with tasks involving situational human-robot interaction (HRI). A key problem of applying LLMs in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Kazuhiro Sasabuchi , Naoki Wake , Atsushi Kanehira , Jun Takamatsu , Katsushi Ikeuchi

This paper introduces a prototype for a new approach to assistive robotics, integrating edge computing with Natural Language Processing (NLP) and computer vision to enhance the interaction between humans and robotic systems. Our proof of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Pascal Sikorski , Kaleb Yu , Lucy Billadeau , Flavio Esposito , Hadi AliAkbarpour , Madi Babaiasl

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

As social robots see increasing deployment within the general public, improving the interaction with those robots is essential. Spoken language offers an intuitive interface for the human-robot interaction (HRI), with dialogue management…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Merle M. Reimann , Florian A. Kunneman , Catharine Oertel , Koen V. Hindriks

Autonomous cyber-physical systems like robots and self-driving cars could greatly benefit from using formal methods to reason reliably about their control decisions. However, before a problem can be solved it needs to be stated. This…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Aditi Kabra , Jonathan Laurent , Sagar Bharadwaj , Ruben Martins , Stefan Mitsch , André Platzer

The integration of large language models (LLMs) with robotics has significantly advanced robots' abilities in perception, cognition, and task planning. The use of natural language interfaces offers a unified approach for expressing the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Wenhao Yu , Jie Peng , Yueliang Ying , Sai Li , Jianmin Ji , Yanyong Zhang

This paper presents INPROVF, an automatic framework that combines large language models (LLMs) and formal methods to speed up the repair process of high-level robot controllers. Previous approaches based solely on formal methods are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Qian Meng , Jin Peng Zhou , Kilian Q. Weinberger , Hadas Kress-Gazit

This technical paper introduces a chatting robot system that utilizes recent advancements in large-scale language models (LLMs) such as GPT-3 and ChatGPT. The system is integrated with a co-speech gesture generation system, which selects…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Naoki Wake , Atsushi Kanehira , Kazuhiro Sasabuchi , Jun Takamatsu , Katsushi Ikeuchi

We explore the use of GPT-4 on a humanoid robot in simulation and the real world as proof of concept of a novel large language model (LLM) driven behaviour method. LLMs have shown the ability to perform various tasks, including robotic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Thomas O'Brien , Ysobel Sims

With rapid advances in code generation, reasoning, and problem-solving, Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly applied in robotics. Most existing work focuses on high-level tasks such as task decomposition. A few studies have…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Zhongchao Zhou , Yuxi Lu , Yaonan Zhu , Yifan Zhao , Bin He , Liang He , Wenwen Yu , Yusuke Iwasawa

We aim to control a robot to physically behave in the real world following any high-level language command like "cartwheel" or "kick". Although human motion datasets exist, this task remains particularly challenging since generative models…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Shusheng Xu , Huaijie Wang , Jiaxuan Gao , Yutao Ouyang , Chao Yu , Yi Wu

Large Language Models (LLMs) have been successful at generating robot policy code, but so far these results have been limited to high-level tasks that do not require precise movement. It is an open question how well such approaches work for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Kaylee Burns , Ajinkya Jain , Keegan Go , Fei Xia , Michael Stark , Stefan Schaal , Karol Hausman

We introduce a novel framework for automatic behavior tree (BT) construction in heterogeneous multi-robot systems, designed to address the challenges of adaptability and robustness in dynamic environments. Traditional robots are limited by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Chaoran Wang , Jingyuan Sun , Yanhui Zhang , Mingyu Zhang , Changju Wu

In human-robot collaboration, robot errors are inevitable -- damaging user trust, willingness to work together, and task performance. Prior work has shown that people naturally respond to robot errors socially and that in social…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Maia Stiber , Russell Taylor , Chien-Ming Huang

Human robot collaboration is becoming increasingly important as robots become more involved in various aspects of human life in the era of Artificial Intelligence. However, the issue of human operators trust in robots remains a significant…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Yang Ye , Hengxu You , Jing Du

Recently, large language models (LLMs) have shown strong potential in facilitating human-robotic interaction and collaboration. However, existing LLM-based systems often overlook the misalignment between human and robot perceptions, which…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Yixin Chen , Guoxi Zhang , Yaowei Zhang , Hongming Xu , Peiyuan Zhi , Qing Li , Siyuan Huang

Understanding the intentions of robots is essential for natural and seamless human-robot collaboration. Ensuring that robots have means for non-verbal communication is a basis for intuitive and implicit interaction. For this, we contribute…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Jan Leusmann , Steeven Villa , Thomas Liang , Chao Wang , Albrecht Schmidt , Sven Mayer

As general-purpose tools, Large Language Models (LLMs) must often reason about everyday physical environments. In a question-and-answer capacity, understanding the interactions of physical objects may be necessary to give appropriate…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Matteo G. Mecattaf , Ben Slater , Marko Tešić , Jonathan Prunty , Konstantinos Voudouris , Lucy G. Cheke