GPT-6 Astra Cuts Robot Task Time From 1 Hour to Under 1 Minute, but Video Is 60x Sped Up
YuXiang_IRVL · x · 2026-09-18
A developer used GPT-6 Astra for robot control with the prompt "put the grey cup inside the orange cup, do it fast, make no mistakes," cutting task execution from 1 hour to under a minute with a custom harness — a 60x speedup. Roboticist YuXiang (IRVL) notes the clip itself plays at 60x and argues that getting models like Astra to actually run at 30 FPS or even 10 FPS for robot control would be a really big deal, highlighting inference speed as the key bottleneck for embodied AI.
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