Two robot arms plus SHARPA hands: Astra fails 20 times at rolling a joint in sim
eigenron · x · 2026-10-10
eigenron gave the Astra model two Franka FR3 arms, SHARPA hands, and 512 simulated flakes in Isaac, then asked it to roll a joint: RGB in → wrist poses + fingertip targets → IK → contact physics. With high reasoning enabled it failed all 20 attempts — dexterity, it turns out, is not included in the token price. A funny but telling demo of current limits in contact-rich manipulation.
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