'Robot-use' works on humanoids: coding agents zero-shot control a full humanoid for pick-and-place
ai · x · 2026-09-23
Bryan Lim's team shows "robot-use" extends to humanoids: with a good enough whole-body controller/tracker, agents like Astra and Fable can zero-shot control a full humanoid robot for open-ended pick-and-place tasks — an emergent capability. Caveats: speed, cost, precision and dexterity are all worse on humanoid platforms due to poorer tracking and balance management, causing extra correction loops.
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