RT-2 is able to make sense of that from its vision-language training data and do the job."

Google also claims the new iteration can employ basic reasoning skills to respond to user commands.

Without the decision-making process, robots are just automatons."

AI robot analyzing human brain and body data.

AI robot analyzing human data.Vithun Khamsong / Getty Images

Autonomous cars are one example of how AI is used in robotics.

Object recognition lets robots quickly identify objects and their relevance to their assigned tasks.

NLP advancements empower them to have better-spoken interactions with their human counterparts.

Scientists working on a prosthetic robot arm.

Scientists working on robotic prosthetics.gorodenkoff / Getty Images

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In the future, you might not need a keyboard to control robots.

Humans might one day not even be needed when AI takes control of robots, Inbar said.

“We can just provide generic guidance, and the robot will figure out the rest.”