Astra robot-control demos pile up; speculation OpenAI is building its own Gemini Robotics rival
CyberRobooo · x · 2026-09-07
Quoting HakimFang: GPT-6 Astra performs impressively on the RoboDojo benchmark, with robot-control demos surfacing constantly.
CyberRobooo speculates that OpenAI may have already tested the model's ability to control humanoid robots and could be developing a proprietary robotics model, similar to Gemini Robotics. Unconfirmed speculation.
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