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ChatGPT: Creating Robot-Friendly Conversational AI with Covariant

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Covariant is building ChatGPT for robots The UC Berkeley spinout says its new AI platform can help robots think more like peopleCovariant this week announced the launch of RFM-1 (Robotics Foundation Model 1). “We at Covariant have already deployed lots of robots at warehouses with success. “We do like a lot of the work that is happening in the more general purpose robot hardware space,” says Chen. “ChatGPT for robots” isn’t a perfect analogy, but it’s a reasonable shorthand (especially in light of the founders’ connection to OpenAI). Chen says the company expects the new RFM-1 platform will work with a “majority” of the hardware on which Covariant software is already deployed.