OpenAI engineer demos agent painting with a $200 open-source SO-100 robot arm
Thom_Wolf · x · 2026-09-12
An OpenAI engineer predicts robotics will see its own 3D-printing craze: people buying cheap open-source robot arms and plugging them into agents. He gave an agent an open-source Hugging Face SO-100 arm ($200, fully 3D printable), a paintbrush and a camera, and it learned to control the arm and paint the Golden Gate Bridge in real life, improving over attempts.
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