Vibe-coding a robot via MCP: 'codex, move the red box'
yassineyousfi_ · x · 2026-09-09
The author gave Astra a physical robot and the natural-language command "codex move the red box," and it worked. He jokes that he'd hoped to ride the wave without learning what MCP was, but had to pick it up for this cute API — a fun, reproducible example of driving a real robot through an agent via MCP.
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