GPT-6 Astra
OpenAI foundation model evaluated for embodied AI and robotics task execution. Every Robotics Weekly story on GPT-6 Astra, newest first. 8 stories since September 2026.
- Duan runs Astra, Opus, Grok and MolmoAct2 head to head, unedited
Four models, one task, real time, and Chris Paxton is not impressed with how long the Astra rollout takes.
- Astra hits 79% on RoboMME at 3.63 calls per episode
A three-tier stack puts a frontier model in the robot loop only when a small monitor says it is needed.
- Jitendra Malik asks if Astra is plagiarizing the work it uses
A junior researcher's blog post on credit assignment pulled two senior figures into a weekend argument about who gets cited when a model does the science.
- Developer says his Astra harness cut a robot task to under a minute
@calixo888 posted a cup-in-cup run he says dropped from about an hour to under 60 seconds after two days of side projects.
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- Malik asks if Astra is plagiarizing the papers it learned from
A junior researcher's blog post on credit assignment pulled in Jitendra Malik, Chris Paxton and Chen Tessler within hours.
- Astra 35%, Fable 15%, human teleop 100% on Pandroid robots
A controlled real-hardware benchmark put two general models on robot control, and Chris Paxton says robotics labs should be asking why it was not their models.
- Chris Paxton says Astra's spot at the top is gone
Three short posts in one day from the roboticist, and the only hard detail is who did the displacing.
- RoboDojo tests GPT-6 Astra, finds a physics gap
Chris Paxton calls it an incredibly good robotics model, Chen Tessler says it has no business doing short-horizon execution.
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