Google's AI Could Revolutionize Robotics: Here's How

(Image credit- VentureBeat) As Google intends to increase robots' IQ with artificial intelligence (AI), your household tasks may get simpler soon. Robotics Transformer 2 (RT-2) is a novel computer approach that may be used to teach robots to comprehend activities like trash collection. It's one of a growing number of approaches to artificial intelligence (AI)-powered robot intelligence that could revolutionize everything from routine household chores to medical implants.

RT-2 Creates Intelligent Trash Bots

In a blog post, Google introduced RT-2, an AI model that can translate data into orders for robots after being trained on large amounts of text and images from the internet. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="1068"] Image credit- Singularity Hub[/caption] Even while humans would consider cleaning up trash to be simple, instructing a robot to do so requires them to comprehend a series of activities. The robot must be able to recognize rubbish things, then understand how to pick them up and correctly dispose of them. Instead of explicitly programming these particular tasks, RT-2 allows the robot to use the knowledge it has learned from the internet to comprehend and complete the task, even if it hasn't had any training on the exact steps. Google claims that the most recent model roughly doubled the robots' capabilities over the previous one and considerably improved their performance in unknown conditions. Google asserts that the updated version can respond to user commands using simple logic. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="700"] Image credit- Business Insider[/caption] RobotLAB CEO Elad Inbar claimed that the type of AI in RT-2 enables robots to make judgments. Without intelligence, he continued, "Robots are no smarter than basic devices like windshield wipers or toaster ovens." He added, "Artificial intelligence is essentially a code created specifically for that robot, interpreting sensor input and formulating a plan of action based on that input. Robots that lack the ability to make decisions are merely automatons." One use of AI in robotics is self-driving cars. According to Inbar, the fully autonomous car employs artificial intelligence to gather and interpret gigabytes of data every minute from a variety of sensors, cameras, and maps and then choose the best course of action in light of all this data.

AI Robots Are Having a Boom

According to Michael Nizich, a professor of computer science at the New York Institute of Technology, robots are benefiting from recent developments in AI disciplines like object recognition and natural language processing (NLP). Robots can swiftly recognize items and their significance to the tasks they are given by using object recognition. With the help of NLP developments, they can communicate with others more effectively. You might not require a keyboard to control robots in the future. Nizich anticipated that commercial robots may be controlled by humans using only their thoughts if they were equipped with large language models (LLMs) for AI, such as GPT-4, and brain interface technologies. Also read: An AI robot evaded the question when asked if robots could rise against their human creators, another gave wry response