Robot startup ditches VLAs for Opus-based reasoning layer in customer deployment
micoolcho · x · 2026-10-16
@ihorbeaver shares that over the past month his team fully switched to frontier LLMs to control a robot in customer deployment, using a "System 1/System 2 architecture on steroids": a high-level reasoning agent built on Opus and Astra—many generations more capable than any VLA—paired with a fast execution layer of computer-vision code written by the model itself. A commenter asks how many months until the base-station setup could self-replicate.
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