Astra figures out robot arm control to paint the Golden Gate Bridge in real life
DeryaTR_ · x · 2026-09-09
A developer gave Astra a robot, a paint brush, and a camera, and asked it to paint the Golden Gate Bridge in real life. The model figured out how to control the robot on its own and progressively improved across attempts, with a striking timelapse as proof. The repost frames this as AGI spilling into the physical world, arguing physical intelligence could be orders of magnitude more valuable than computer-use mastery — hype aside, the demo is a compelling embodied-AI showcase.
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