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Doosan Robotics’ E-Collection of cobots is NSF-certified. | Supply: Doosan Robotics

Doosan Robotics has partnered with Microsoft and Doosan Digital Innovation to offer collaborative robots (cobots) a context-aware management system based mostly on generative pre-trained transformer know-how. The partnership was formalized with a memorandum of understanding for Doosan Robotics to make use of Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI Service for a GPT-based robotic management system. 

As a part of the settlement, Azure will present Doosan with entry to the GPT language mannequin, and Doosan Digital Innovation will likely be chargeable for adapting the mannequin for use in Doosan’s robots. Doosan hopes this integration will shorten programming instances whereas additionally increasing the out there capabilities for his or her robots. 

Doosan plans to leverage GPT’s comprehension capabilities to permit robots to achieve extra context and nuance in understanding duties. GPT is a big language mannequin that may perceive and generate human-like textual content based mostly on the huge quantities of information it’s skilled on. 

The corporate hopes to combine GPT into its system, cobots will have the ability to self-correct errors throughout operation and anticipate and alter their actions based mostly on the context. 

For instance, Doosan’s E-SERIES cobots are designed for meals and beverage preparation. With GPT built-in, a consumer might concern a easy voice command to arrange a dish, and the robotic might determine the optimum sequence of duties to finish the meal. 

GPT integration additionally permits robots to entry and be taught from an current database of code, which is able to make it so programmers don’t should program each new process from scratch. 

Doosan Robotics plans to first check this know-how within the meals and beverage sector later this yr. Relying on the outcomes of this testing, the corporate could discover utilizing it within the manufacturing sector as properly. 

At RoboBusiness, which takes place October 18-19 in Santa Clara, CA, a keynote panel of robotics trade leaders will focus on the functions of Giant Language Fashions (LLMs) and textual content technology functions to robotics. It is going to additionally discover basic methods generative AI might be utilized to robotics design, mannequin coaching, simulation, management algorithms and product commercialization.

The panel will embrace Pras Velagapudi, VP of Innovation at Agility Robotics, Jeff Linnell, CEO and Founding father of Formant, Ken Goldberg, the William S. Floyd Jr. Distinguished Chair in Engineering at UC Berkeley, Amit Goel, the Director of Product Administration at NVIDIA, and Ted Larson, the CEO of OLogic.