The AI will allow the devices of a well-known American company to communicate with their interlocutors.
For years, Boston Dynamics amazes the whole world with quadrupedal robots They perform all kinds of tasks and movements. Indeed, they are not the robots that the world of cinema had painted us and yes, they are much more intelligent than your robot vacuum cleaner. In fact, they are so advanced that now, in addition to performing mechanical feats, they are also able to speak.
Boston Dynamics once again amazes the world with its intelligent robots
Thanks to a recent publication on Twitter, which you can see below these lines, we have learned about the latest big thing of Boston Dynamics’ robot dogs. And it is that thanks to the union of the North American company with the Levatas company, its robot model called spots has integrated the OpenAI ChatGPT language model. Those users of the quadruped robot will finally be able to interact with him through voice thanks to Google’s Text-to-Speech technology.
We integrated ChatGPT with our robots.
We had a ton of fun building this!
Read on for the details: pic.twitter.com/DRC2AOF0eU
—Santiago (@svpino) April 25, 2023
At present, this robot is able not only to perform physical tasksbut also of accumulate large amount of data through the sensors integrated in its structure. From the ChatGPT implementationSpot users will have the opportunity to ask the robot questions and he will be able to analyze these for later, based on the data he already has, to be able to provide the most accurate answers possible in the work environment.
At the moment, according to the information collected in the digital medium Business Insider, the first tests of this new way of using the robot in companies dedicated to industrial equipment inspection. And the thing will not stop here.
The CEO of Levatas, Chris Nielsen, has assured that the company will explore the integration of GPT-4 in these robots to be able solve even more complex problems of which the use of ChatGPT can currently manage, which happens to know, for example, its battery percentage or the inspections remaining in its next mission. As stated by Mr. Nielsen:
These Spot units will be able to scout facilities, discover a variety of equipment and conditions, and then report back so that human teams can safely respond to your maintenance recommendations.