Maestro paper: cheap Gemini 2.5 beats π₀.5 baselines at zero-shot robot control
dineshjayaraman · x · 2026-11-11
A CoRL 2026 paper from JunyaoShi's team, Maestro, shows how older, cheaper models like Gemini 2.5 can narrow the gap to frontier systems like Astra for robotic control by relying on robotics tools and an orchestration harness.
- Zero-shot real-world manipulation across 8 tabletop and 4 mobile tasks
- Surpasses π₀.5 and code-as-policies baselines
The takeaway: tooling and orchestration can substitute for raw model capability in robot control.
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