Gemini 4 Argon Trails GPT 6 Astra by Just 25 Points on Physical Agents Index

qinzytech · x · 2026-10-15

• Embodied Analysis's Physical Agents Index ranks Gemini 4 Argon second of 18 models at 1,324 points as of October 14, just 25 behind GPT 6 Astra's 1,349.
• A side-by-side run on the same task (dropping four bottles into a bin with handovers as needed): Argon released all four bottles within its 69-second recording; Astra's 99.5-second run ended with the yellow and green bottles still on the table.
• Both made repeated gripper adjustments, and Argon's white bottle even fell back to the table mid-run before a later release; the contrast lies in final object states, not retry behavior. One run per model—this is not a success-rate estimate.

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