This article from The Economist highlights the work being done in the Toyota Research Institute (TRI) labs to train robots in a kitchen setting.

“If you give a robot the confidence to work in a kitchen, it will also have the confidence to work in a factory or a person’s home,” says Gill Pratt, Toyota’s chief scientist and TRI's CEO.

"Diffusion, already used to help AI models generate images, has been developed as a way to speed up the training of robots by TRI and roboticists at Columbia University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). To explain how diffusion works, Russ Tedrake, TRI’s vice president of robotics research and a professor at MIT, uses a typical kitchen task: teaching a robot how to load a dishwasher once its fellow machines are done with their cooking."

Read more about TRI's large behavior models in this article.