Roboticist: Next Frontier Is Truly Leveraging AI Models for Manipulation, Not Agent Wrappers
chris_j_paxton · x · 2026-09-06
- IRVL researcher YuXiangXiang argues the next frontier in robotics is truly leveraging advanced AI models for manipulation — not just using them as agents to call perception and planning modules; new ways to connect models with the physical world are needed.
- A quoted thread claims GPT-6 "Astra" scored 95% on a robot control task vs. 40% for Fable 5.1, with 6.2x fewer output tokens at 2.3x lower cost (unverified).
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