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RoboticsLearning by doingStory 01

A bowl is easy. A puzzle needs more practice.

What changedIn a Robocurve experiment, GPT-6 Astra guided robot arms to put a block in a bowl 19 times out of 20. Fitting a puzzle piece precisely was much harder: it succeeded twice in 20 attempts. The team shared videos and records of every run.

Robocurve comparison of frontier models controlling two robot arms

The useful part

Why it matters

The comparison makes it easier to see which movements robots handle well and which still need work.

Keep in mind

Good to know

The study used two tabletop tasks and human grading, so it gives a limited picture.

Evidence

Primary source

Robocurve

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