DeepMind's Astra Robot Evaluated 98,000 Times Across 28 Simulated Environments
tomssilver · x · 2026-09-25
A new preprint accompanies the Astra robot videos: the authors built a large-scale sandboxed evaluation and ran 98,000 evaluations across 28 simulated environments, with a deliberately clean, strict experimental setup intended to serve future agent evaluation. Qualitative examples show agents devising surprisingly clever physical reasoning strategies.
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