Researchers suspect Astra was trained on 3D and robot action data, giving it stronger 3D awareness
georgiagkioxari · x · 2026-09-18
Robotics researcher Georgia Gkioxari argues Astra is more 3D-aware than other frontier multimodal models.
- She notes such capabilities typically come from pretraining or RLVR, so 3D data was likely in the training mix
- Michael Black adds that while Astra isn't "natively" 3D/4D, it understands enough to help scale 3D/4D data collection
- Gkioxari also notes robot action data was part of training
A first-hand observation from senior robotics researchers about Astra's likely training data composition.
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