When will robots have their Chat GPT moment?
AI startups in New York are offering free home cleaning鈥攁s long as it鈥檚 okay to film everything in order to train robots. Are we on the brink of a ChatGPT moment for robotics?
AI startups in New York are offering free home cleaning鈥攁s long as it鈥檚 okay to have everything filmed in order to train robots. Aleks Krotoski and Kevin Fong ask: how far off is a ChatGPT moment for robotics?
Robots are nothing new, and online you鈥檒l find endless videos of cutting-edge machines doing everything from backflips to breakdancing. So with all the breakthroughs in other areas of AI, why aren鈥檛 we seeing robots on our streets and in our homes?
We hear from Grace Shao in Hong Kong, who鈥檚 been observing recent efforts in China to push the frontiers of robotics. While Subramanian Ramamoorthy, Professor of Robot Learning and Autonomy at the University of Edinburgh, explains just how complicated it is to get robots functioning in our messy human world鈥攁nd why our expectations may need to be lowered, at least for now.
Presenters: Aleks Krotoski and Kevin Fong
Producer: Peter McManus
Soound: Laura Hay
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- Next Wednesday 15:30麻豆社 Radio 4
- Mon 6 Jul 2026 00:15麻豆社 Radio 4
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The Artificial Human
Aleks Krotoski and Kevin Fong answer the questions we're all asking about AI.
