
Teaching Robots Common Sense
A New Framework to Help Robots Understand Their Environment
This research introduces a novel affordance-driven framework that enables robots to better understand their environment using Large Language Models.
- Leverages LLMs to help robots interpret affordances - the potential uses of objects in their surroundings
- Creates a symbol network approach that translates implicit human common sense into actionable robot decisions
- Provides a method for automatic affordance acquisition that bridges the gap between human understanding and robot capabilities
This engineering breakthrough could dramatically improve human-robot interaction by allowing robots to make more intuitive decisions in dynamic environments without explicit programming.