GPT-6 Astra drives a $150 robot arm to paint, hits 95% on block pickup
机器之心 · wechat · 2026-09-20
GPT-6 Astra has robot hackers abuzz: a $150 SO-101 arm painted the Golden Gate Bridge under Astra's control (Sam Altman: 'give me one!'). CMU's Wenli Xiao showed one-shot 'physical ICL' from human demo videos. RoboCurve's dual-arm rig hit 95% on block-into-bowl (vs 8/20 for Fable 5.1) but only 10% on precise puzzle insertion, exposing the 'last millimeter' contact problem; attempts at 50Hz legged control fail on inference speed. The result fuels debate that the 'OpenAI of robotics' may be OpenAI itself — general models as robot brains, with low-level controllers handling millisecond execution — as Altman confirms humanoid plans.
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