Astra drives a SO-101 arm pick-and-place in MuJoCo sim with zero policy training
shekitup · x · 2026-09-09
Developer shekitup demoed getting Astra to perform pick-and-place on a SO-101 robot arm in a MuJoCo simulation purely by viewing the feed — with no policy training at all. Next step: testing whether this watch-and-act approach transfers to the real world, which could dramatically lower the barrier to robot manipulation policies.
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