MIT's ComText lets robots follow voice commands

The main contribution is the idea that robots should have different kinds of memory just like people

Scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), including those of Indian origin, have developed a new system that allows robots to understand voice commands just like artificial intelligence (AI) assistants such as Siri and Alexa.

Currently, robots are very limited in what they can do.

Their inability to understand the nuances of human language makes them mostly useless for more complicated requests.

For example, if you put a specific tool in a toolbox and ask a robot to “pick it up,” it would be completely lost.

Picking it up means being able to see and identify objects, understand commands,