The paper “Interactively Picking Real-World Objects with Unconstrained Spoken Language Instructions” got ICRA 2018 Best Paper on Human-Robot Interaction.

https://projects.preferred.jp/interactive-robot/

https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.06280

At Preferred Networks, we are applying the latest speech and natural language processing technologies as means of communication between humans and robots.

Our latest work has succeeded in building an interactive system to which you can use unconstrained spoken language instructions to operate a common object picking task.

 

Project page: https://projects.preferred.jp/interactive-robot/