Fable 5.2 drives a robot arm to paint its self-portrait: 12 hours, 188M tokens, $97
VoicAndrei · reddit · 2026-11-14
Following the recent wave of 'AI with a robot arm' painting demos, a Redditor gave the new Fable 5.2 a brush-holding robot arm, three cameras, a watercolor palette, and SSH access — no painting tools, no calibration, no hints. It got five practice sheets and one final, with zero human feedback.
- Day 1: it wrote its own arm controller and camera calibration, crashed the brush into the table, asked for a paper towel, and lost 3 hours to a 12mm positioning error
- Day 2: recalibrated and painted its self-portrait on the sixth sheet
- Totals: 12 hours over two days, 188M tokens, $97 at API prices, 80 scripts — it even edited the video itself
The author half-jokes that a PaintingBench benchmark is overdue and takes questions.
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