Robots That Think and Act: The Future of AI Control Systems

Dr Mark van Rijmenam, CSP -

Are robots about to outthink us in their quest to master the world?

Researchers from UC Berkeley, University of Warsaw, and Stanford have introduced Embodied Chain-of-Thought (ECoT) reasoning for vision-language-action models (VLAs).

This innovation enhances robot decision-making by enabling them to reason about tasks and their environment before acting. Unlike current VLAs, which map observations directly to actions, ECoT encourages robots to break down tasks and consider spatial relationships and their own state.

This method, tested on a robotic arm, showed a 28% improvement in task success rates without needing extra training data. How will integrating advanced reasoning into robots redefine their capabilities and our interactions with them?

Read the full article on VentureBeat.

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