GPT-6 Astra robot test: wrist-camera prompting helps, $100 bounty for stacking a ducky
chris_j_paxton · x · 2026-09-13
A developer shares hands-on experience with OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra robot, noting that prompt engineering for robotics works quite differently.
- Asking Astra to use the otherwise idle wrist camera as an extra angle improved task performance — showing perception setup can be tuned via prompts.
- The model still can't stack 3 blocks with a ducky on top, and the author is offering $100 to the first person who manages it.
The post is a third-party reality check following OpenAI's claim that "anything you can do on a computer, Astra can do for you."
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