OpenAI's Astra shows in-context learning for mobile robot manipulation from video alone
npew · x · 2026-09-11
OpenAI researchers demoed Astra doing in-context learning on mobile manipulation: no text prompt — it infers the task from video alone, generalizes across different environments, camera angles and layouts, and decides autonomously between end-effector and joint-space control, with full trace recording.
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