Multimodal AI: PaLM-E’s Role within Vision–Language–Robotics and Future of Fine-Tuning

Zarif Bin Akhtar*

Received : February 20, 2026 | Published : March 27, 2026

Citation: Akhtar, Z.B. (2026), ‘Multimodal AI: PaLM-E’s role within Vision–Language–Robotics and Future of Fine-Tuning’, Journal of Artificial Intelligence and AI Ethics, 1(1), pp. 1–10. DOI: 10.64978/jaiae.2026.0327006

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Abstract

This study explores the convergence of artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, and advanced language models, centering on the PaLM-E framework. By examining its adaptability and reasoning in varied robotic contexts, the work demonstrates how PaLM-E can interpret natural language instructions and translate them into precise, low-level robotic commands. The investigation also evaluates Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) strategies, including Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) and Quantized Low-Rank Adaptation (QLoRA), tracing their development and highlighting their capacity to improve performance while reducing the number of trainable parameters. Beyond robotics, the research surveys notable generative AI systems such as GPT-3, GPT-4, Copilot, Bard, LLaMA, Stable Diff usion, Midjourney, and DALL-E assessing their versatility in producing text, code, images, and other outputs from natural language prompts. An overview of AI’s historical progression is provided, from speculative concepts to modern, practical implementations, with emphasis on generative AI’s rapid expansion in the 21st century. Real-world applications are examined across robotics, planning, business intelligence, and synthetic data generation, alongside an assessment of hardware and software deployment options, from local consumer systems to cloud-based infrastructures. The advantages of local deployment for privacy protection, intellectual property security, and freedom from external censorship are emphasized. Ethical considerations including issues of bias, misinformation, security, and societal implications are addressed, with proposed guidelines for responsible AI development and integration. Overall, the work highlights the deep interconnection between vision, language, and robotics, offering insights that may guide the next generation of generative AI research and applications.

Keywords: Artifi cial Intelligence (AI), Computer Vision, Deep Learning (DL), Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI), Large Language Models (LLMs), Machine Learning (ML), Robotics