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In a cluttered open-plan office in Mountain View, California, a tall and slender wheeled robot has been busy playing tour guide and informal office helper\u2014thanks to a large language model upgrade, Google DeepMind revealed today<\/a>. The robot uses the latest version of Google\u2019s Gemini large language model<\/a> to both parse commands and find its way around.<\/p>\n

When told by a human \u201cFind me somewhere to write,\u201d for instance, the robot dutifully trundles off, leading the person to a pristine whiteboard located somewhere in the building.<\/p>\n

Gemini\u2019s ability to handle video and text\u2014in addition to its capacity to ingest large amounts of information in the form of previously recorded video tours of the office\u2014allows the \u201cGoogle helper\u201d robot to make sense of its environment and navigate correctly when given commands that require some commonsense reasoning. The robot combines Gemini with an algorithm that generates specific actions for the robot to take, such as turning, in response to commands and what it sees in front of it.<\/p>\n

When Gemini was introduced in December, Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, told WIRED<\/a> that its multimodal capabilities would likely unlock new robot abilities. He added that the company\u2019s researchers were hard at work testing the robotic potential of the model.<\/p>\n

In a new paper<\/a> outlining the project, the researchers behind the work say that their robot proved to be up to 90 percent reliable at navigating, even when given tricky commands such as \u201cWhere did I leave my coaster?\u201d DeepMind\u2019s system \u201chas significantly improved the naturalness of human-robot interaction, and greatly increased the robot usability,\u201d the team writes.<\/p>\n

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