Tellex, StefanieGopalan, NakulKress-Gazit, HadasMatuszek, Cynthia2020-08-192020-08-192020-01-31Stefanie Tellex et al., Robots That Use Language, Annual Review of Control, Robotics, and Autonomous Systems, Vol. 3:25-55 (2020), https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-control-101119-071628https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-control-101119-071628http://hdl.handle.net/11603/19469This 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 robot's sensors and actuators. This problem differs from other natural language processing domains due to the need to ground the language to noisy percepts and physical actions. Here, we describe central aspects of language use by robots, including understanding natural language requests, using language to drive learning about the physical world, and engaging in collaborative dialogue with a human partner. We describe common approaches, roughly divided into learning methods, logic-based methods, and methods that focus on questions of human–robot interaction. Finally, we describe several application domains for language-using robots.33 pagesen-USThis item is likely protected under Title 17 of the U.S. Copyright Law. Unless on a Creative Commons license, for uses protected by Copyright Law, contact the copyright holder or the author.© 2020 by Annual Reviews. All rights reservedText