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Natural Language Programming Interface for Industrial Robots

Programming industrial robots traditionally requires specialized expertise and low-level motion planning knowledge, creating a bottleneck for operators without robotics engineering backgrounds. This project explores using natural language instructions to generate robot trajectories, demonstrated via a browser-based MuJoCo simulation. The core problem — that robot programming is inaccessible to non-specialists — is real, but this post is primarily a project showcase rather than a validated pain point with documented user frustration.

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