Researchers use ChatGPT to design tomato harvesting robot

Added on 19 June 2023

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Researchers use ChatGPT to design tomato harvesting robot

Is there anything the open AI platform ChatGPT can’t handle? The answer to that is still unclear; however, new AI developments recently inspired researchers at the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) in The Netherlands and the Swiss technical university EPFL to dig a little deeper. For instance, can ChatGPT also design a robot? And is this a good thing for the design process, or are there risks? The researchers published their findings in Nature Machine Intelligence.

What are the greatest future challenges for humanity? This was the first question that Cosimo Della Santina, assistant professor, and PhD student Francesco Stella, both from TU Delft, and Josie Hughes from EPFL, asked ChatGPT.

“We wanted ChatGPT to design not just a robot, but one that is actually useful,” says Della Santina. In the end, they chose the food supply as their challenge, and as they chatted with ChatGPT, they came up with the idea of creating a tomato harvesting robot.