# MIT and NYU researchers introduce FLEX, an AI platform for robot motion planning

> Original title: AI-assisted learning platform helps robots reason beyond literal commands

- Source: MIT News · AI
- Published: 2026-11-09T05:00:00.000Z
- Bad Influence: https://badinfluence.news/items/c0pwoh131sig0svvnkk8hnxs9
- Original: https://news.mit.edu/2026/ai-assisted-learning-platform-helps-robots-reason-beyond-literal-commands-1109

## Summary

MIT and New York University researchers introduce FLEX, a feature-editing pipeline that lets people give robots natural-language commands for motion planning. FLEX uses GPT-4o to generalize from a user's instructions, such as avoiding fragile objects, without the user spelling out each one. The three-step process, Add, Generalize and Mask, takes about five seconds, and the team tested it in simulations of a robot arm.