A chatbot in a robot? Yes, according to the New York Times:

Covariant, a robotics company headquartered in Emeryville, Calif., is creating ways for robots to pick up, move and sort items as they are shuttled through warehouses and distribution centers. Its goal is to help robots gain an understanding of what is going on around them and decide what they should do next.

The technology also gives robots a broad understanding of the English language, letting people chat with them as if they were chatting with ChatGPT.

This is a classically hard problem in robotics – so it will be interesting to see if chatbots move the needle.

Read the article here.