Robot fails at folding a towel, reassuring roboticists frontier models won't eat robotics yet
chris_j_paxton · x · 2026-11-12
Roboticist Chris Paxton shares the RoboColliseum demo at the BitRobot booth, where a robot dubbed "GPT6 astra" visibly struggles to fold a towel. His takeaway for roboticists worried about frontier models eating all of robotics: stop by and feel better — everyday dexterity remains far from solved.
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