In week 33 (from August 12 to 16) WARA Robotics successfully co-hosted the WASP Summer School on Generative AI in Norrköping. The summer school welcomed students from many different disciplines; not just from technical backgrounds but also for examples students from philosophy or law. The program contained various inspiring lectures and social activities such as a pitching event and an excursion to the beautiful surroundings of Marmorbruket (where the cover picture of this post was taken).
With WARA Robotics, we hosted a track for the students that aimed to give an understanding of the different existing approaches that employ LLMs as the main reasoning engine for task planning in robotics. The focus fwas on one of the simplest forms, namely prompt engineering techniques and remote running of APIs. Students had the opportunity to get hands-on experience building the prompts, comparing the performances between different models, and with parsing and deploying the generated task plans on one of the two YuMi Robots that we brought over. Furthermore, we hosted two inspiring talks: One from Michael Welle about Foundational Manipulation Models, and another from Luc de Raedt about Neurosynaptic AI.
The students were very excited to work in close contact with an actual robot and they were surprised by how LLM enabled them to easily and creatively prompt the robot to place the cubes in several configurations.
You can also watch the aftermovie here!
