Researchers tested an LLM-powered robot's ability to fetch butter. The result? Today’s models still struggle at basic embodied tasks.
Billy Perrigo
Perrigo is a correspondent at TIME, based in the London bureau. He covers the tech industry, focusing on the companies reshaping our world in strange and unexpected ways. His investigation ‘Inside Facebook’s African Sweatshop’ was a finalist for the 2022 Orwell Prize.
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