One prompt: GPT-6 Astra trains a dexterous hand to spin a pen over 1.5 days
FinanceYF5 · x · 2026-09-18
A single prompt to GPT-6 Astra — train a Sharpa dexterous hand to spin a pen using Isaac Lab RL, self-create the pen's 3D mesh, deliver the trained policy and a video, with free web access — resulted in an autonomous 1.5-day run covering research, training, and visualization. The model delivered a working pen-spinning policy end to end.
Related event: GPT-6 Astra Autonomously Trains Dexterous Hand to Spin a Pen in 36 Hours(3 posts)→
More from coding & agent
- DeepSeek design doc: a person can only follow 3-5 agent sessions at once, attention is the real bottleneck — heyshrutimishra · 2026-11-02
- Software fundamentals are key to getting good results from AI coding agents — bendee983 · 2026-11-02
- Open-source LLM regression gate digline hits 1.0: quantifying judge noise before calling a regression — alexpran · 2026-11-02
- PR adds patient retry logic for model capacity errors in OpenAI Codex — bytebot · 2026-11-02
- Perplexity open-sources WANDR: 500 research tasks, 170,495 evidence points, URL-rechecking grader — thisguyknowsai · 2026-11-02
- 4 AIs, 96 questions, 2,671 citations: 74% are blog posts, 99% on companies' own sites — tibo_maker · 2026-11-02