{"id":184934,"date":"2024-03-11T16:25:27","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T21:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/covariant-is-building-chatgpt-for-robots"},"modified":"2024-03-11T16:25:27","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T21:25:27","slug":"covariant-is-building-chatgpt-for-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/covariant-is-building-chatgpt-for-robots","title":{"rendered":"Covariant is building ChatGPT for robots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/covariant-is-building-chatgpt-for-robots2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/covariant.ai\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Covariant<\/a> this week announced the launch of RFM-1 (Robotics Foundation Model 1). Peter Chen, the co-founder and CEO of the UC Berkeley artificial intelligence spinout tells TechCrunch the platform, \u201cis basically a large language model (LLM), but for robot language.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>RFM-1 is the result of, among other things, a massive trove of data collected from the deployment of <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2023\/04\/04\/covariants-robotic-picking-at-nabs-another-75m\/\">Covariant\u2019s Brain AI platform<\/a>. With customer consent, the startup has been building the robot equivalent of an LLM database.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe vision of RFM-1 is to power the billions of robots to come,\u201d Chen says. \u201cWe at Covariant have already deployed lots of robots at warehouses with success. But that is not the limit of where we want to get to. We really want to power robots in manufacturing, food processing, recycling, agriculture, the service industry and even into people\u2019s homes.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Covariant this week announced the launch of RFM-1 (Robotics Foundation Model 1). Peter Chen, the co-founder and CEO of the UC Berkeley artificial intelligence spinout tells TechCrunch the platform, \u201cis basically a large language model (LLM), but for robot language.\u201d RFM-1 is the result of, among other things, a massive trove of data collected from [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,15,6,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-habitats","category-robotics-ai","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}