LLMs play Connect 4 via robot arms in MuJoCo; fable 5.1 wins at $17.40 in API calls
eigenron · x · 2026-10-09
eigenron hooked astra and fable 5.1 up to Franka robot arms to play Connect 4 in MuJoCo simulation.
- Pipeline: camera observations in -> end-effector poses + gripper commands out -> Cartesian IK -> sim joint control, with real contact and gravity on every pickup and drop
- Both started at high reasoning, resumed at medium after a per-player budget cutoff
- fable won with a diagonal on move 25; total cost $17.40 in API calls
- Chess is planned as the next experiment
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