Humanoid robots can already dance and backflip. Getting one to reliably understand a spoken request and complete several unfamiliar physical steps may be the harder breakthrough.
Spirit AI co-founder and chief scientist Gao Yang believes the next major leap in humanoid robotics could arrive by mid-2027, when robots may be able to take natural-language instructions and carry out a sequence of physical actions.
“We anticipate reaching the GPT-3.0 milestone by mid-2027. You will be able to speak to a robot in natural language, and it will execute a series of reasonable physical actions to attempt the task,” Gao told Reuters.
Gao compared the…
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