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FLEX approach helps robots reason beyond literal commands

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Humans are intuitive by nature. We can sense meaning beyond the literal words that we encounter. Now, a new artificial intelligence–assisted learning platform developed by MIT engineers is enabling robots to read larger meaning into a human's natural language commands.

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The FLEX system of the MIT allows a robotic arm to deduce what to avoid from a single sentence. The complete process lasts about five seconds. Its authors, from the MIT and from the University of New York, will present it this month at the Conference on Robot Learning. During a virtual test, a person wrote «Do not spill it on the laptop!» while the arm was carrying a cup of coffee. According to the MIT note, the robot changed its route to get aw…

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Science and Heitech: Researchers have developed an artificial FLEX intelligence system that allows robots to understand not only the literal meaning of human instructions but also the intentions behind them.

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TechXplore broke the news in Douglas, United Kingdom on Monday, November 9, 2026.
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