GPT-6 'Astra' learns to control a real robot arm and paint the Golden Gate Bridge
alexeyguzey · x · 2026-09-08
Developer @cdngdev gave OpenAI's newly unveiled GPT-6 'Astra' a robot, a paint brush, and a camera, and asked it to paint the Golden Gate Bridge in real life. Astra figured out how to control the robot on its own and progressively improved across attempts, captured in a timelapse video. OpenAI positions Astra as an agent that can do anything you can do on a computer, fast — this demo shows that capability extending into physical-world manipulation.
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