New milestones in embodied AI

To accomplish a task like checking to see whether you locked the front door or retrieving a cell phone that's ringing in an upstairs bedroom, AI assistants of the future must learn to plan their route, navigate effectively, look around their physical environment, listen to what's happening around them, and build memories of the 3D space. These smarter assistants will require new advances in embodied AI, which seeks to teach machines to understand and interact with the complexities of the physical world as people do. Today, we're announcing several new milestones that introduce important capabilities to push the limits of embodied agents even further. The first audio-visual platform for embodied AI. With this new platform, researchers can train AI agents in 3D environments with highly realistic acoustics.