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Do As I Can, Not As I Say: Grounding Language in Robotic Affordances

by Google / Everyday Robots · free · Last verified 2026-03-17

SayCan combines the semantic reasoning capabilities of large language models with learned value functions that encode physical feasibility, allowing robots to plan long-horizon tasks expressed in natural language. The approach grounds high-level language instructions in real-world robot affordances without task-specific fine-tuning.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.01691
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Adoption: B+Quality: AFreshness: B+Citations: AEngagement: F

Specifications

License
Open Access
Pricing
free
Capabilities
task-planning, language-grounding, affordance-learning, long-horizon-reasoning
Integrations
Use Cases
household-robotics, instruction-following, task-decomposition
API Available
No
Tags
robotics, language-grounding, llm, affordances, planning
Added
2026-03-17
Completeness
100%

Index Score

70.1
Adoption
78
Quality
88
Freshness
72
Citations
85
Engagement
0

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