GPT-6 Astra vs MediaPipe for hand pose: SOTA reasoning, 3 min per frame
chris_j_paxton · x · 2026-09-08
kstonekuan benchmarked GPT-6 Astra against MediaPipe for 3D hand pose estimation. Astra showed SOTA visual/spatial reasoning, works on robotics dataset labeling, and handles gloves that MediaPipe can't — but took 3 min per frame in high-reasoning mode vs MediaPipe's 20 ms. zobotics argues this confirms 'VLM is all you need', letting robotics builders create harnesses instead of burning training compute for demos.
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