TikTok owner ByteDance, which has made artificial intelligence development a top priority, has demonstrated a system that acts as a brain to enable robots to carry out household tasks such as hanging out clothes and cleaning tables.
The GR-3 is a large-scale vision-language-action model that enables robots to follow natural language instructions and carry out general tasks on unseen items, in new environments, or with abstract concepts relating to size and spatial relationships, according to information posted on the company’s website on Tuesday.
When integrated with GR-3, the firm’s lab-stage bimanual mobile robot, called ByteMini, could insert a hanger into a shirt and hang it on a clothes rack, according to a video on the website.
In a separate technical report, the development team said the robot could handle short-sleeved clothes even though “all the clothes in the training data were long-sleeved”.
Powered by GR-3, the robot could also follow instructions to pick up an individual item from a few pieces and place it on a designated spot.
The system could identify an object not only based on its name but also on its size, such as “the larger plate”, or by spatial relationships, like “on the left”.
