LLM given a robot arm self-learns to paint: 188M tokens, $97, one watercolor
VoicAndrei · reddit · 2026-11-15
A Redditor handed the newly released Fable 5.2 a brush-wielding robot arm, three cameras, a watercolor palette, and SSH access—no calibration, no hints. On day 1 the model wrote its own arm controller and camera calibration, crashed the brush, asked for a paper towel, and lost 3 hours to a 12 mm mistake. On day 2 it recalibrated and painted a watercolor self-portrait on its sixth sheet. Totals: 12 hours over two days, 188M tokens, $97 at API prices, 80 scripts—and it edited its own video. The author half-jokes it may be time for a "PaintingBench".
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