An ever-changing room of Ikea furniture could help AI navigate the world

• “Now AI2 wants to kill two birds with one stone. On Tuesday, it announced a new challenge called RoboTHOR (THOR for The House Of inteRactions—yes, really).
• The challenge specifically asks teams to develop algorithms that can get a robot from a random starting location within a room to an object in that room just by telling it the object’s name.”

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