Brown University researchers have developed an artificial intelligence model that can generate movement in robots and animated figures in much the same way that AI models like ChatGPT generate text.

A paper describing this work is published on the arXiv preprint server.

The model, called MotionGlot, enables users to simply type an action— walk forward a few steps and take a right— and the model can generate accurate representations of that motion to command a robot or animated avatar.