LOS ALTOS, CA—Engineers at the Toyota Research Institute (TRI) here are using generative AI technology to quickly teach robots new, dexterous skills. It is a step toward building large behavior models for robots, analogous to the large language models that have recently revolutionized conversational AI.
“Our research in robotics is aimed at amplifying people rather than replacing them,” says Gill Pratt, Ph.D., CEO of TRI and chief scientist at Toyota Motor Corp. “This new teaching technique is both very efficient and produces very high performing behaviors, enabling robots to much more effectively amplify people in many ways.”