This article surveys the use of natural language in robotics from a robotics point of view. To
use human language, robots must map words to aspects of the physical world, mediated by …

The use of speech for robots to communicate with their human users has been facilitated by
improvements in speech synthesis technology. Now that the intelligibility of synthetic speech …

To perform useful tasks in everyday human environments, robots must be able to both
understand and communicate the sensations they experience during haptic interactions with …

Delivering on the promise of real-world robotics will require robots that can communicate
with humans through natural language by learning new words and concepts through their …

Often times, natural language commands issued to robots not only specify a particular target
configuration or goal state but also outline constraints on how the robot goes about its …

This paper addresses the challenge of enabling nonexpert users to command robots to
perform complex high-level tasks using natural language. It describes an integrated system …

Humans can ground natural language commands to tasks at both abstract and fine-grained
levels of specificity. For instance, a human forklift operator can be instructed to perform a …

When robots fail, the consequences can outweigh the system's perceived utility and
convenience, possibly even leading to the system's abandonment. These failures are not …

This paper presents an integrated system for generating, troubleshooting, and executing
correct-by-construction controllers for autonomous robots using natural language input …

It is natural and efficient to use human natural language (NL) directly to instruct robot task
executions without prior user knowledge of instruction patterns. Currently, NL-instructed …