Robotic gripper now runs on Opus-written code, aligning parts via built-in light imaging
ihorbeaver · x · 2026-10-02
Robotics developer ihorbeaver shares progress migrating a customer's setup from direct model control to control by code written by Astra/Opus: the gripper picks up a back cover, points it at a light for masking, then uses that image to align it for precise insertion. The built-in light in the box simplified the vision approach—a hands-on case of LLM-written code replacing online model inference for physical robot control.
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