How Claude performs on robotics tasks
Do language models’ strengths transfer to robotics, a domain which requires the synthesis of logical skills and precise 3D understanding? Can a model perceive a scene, understand a particular robot’s state, and issue actions that reliably effect change in the physical world? We ran tests to find out. We gave several language models control over…
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Do language models’ strengths transfer to robotics? Can a model perceive a scene, understand a particular robot’s state, and issue actions that reliably effect change in the physical world? We ran tests to find out.
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