I gave GPT-6 Astra this image and asked it to recreate the robotic arm.
This is what it came up with.
You get a good look at the full mechanical chain from the rotating base to the shoulder, elbow, wrist and gripper.
The circular joint modules sit between the slotted links, and the end effector uses a compact linkage system to drive both fingers around the object.
What I kept looking at was the gripper.
You can almost trace the motion from the actuator all the way to the fingertips.
Nice reference for anyone studying robot arm design, gripper linkages and basic kinematics.
How close do you think it got?
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A Unitree G1 just showed how fast humanoid policies can fail when the environment moves outside their training range.
New work from the University of Florida trained a G1 to perform roofing-style motions on pitched surfaces using human VR demonstrations.
The human wore a PICO headset, two controllers and two ankle trackers. Those motions were retargeted to the 29-DoF G1.
The team also measured the roof geometry and corrected foot support, hand clearance and body penetration before PPO training.
In simulation, the robot performed nailgun positioning, hammering and lateral pushing.
Work-clearance error reached 0.531 cm for nailgun positioning, 0.256 cm for hammering and 0.424 cm for pushing.
All three tasks finished 3/3 successful runs.
The 25° roof test is the result I keep coming back to.
A policy trained on 9° and 17° slopes failed all 10 trials on an unseen 25° roof.
Once 25° examples were added to training, the same setup completed 10/10 trials at 9°, 17° and 25°.
The policies were also transferred to a physical G1.
Base-frame motion error was 27.6 mm during uphill walking, 60.2 mm for nailgun positioning, 79.9 mm for hammering and 61.4 mm for bending.
The hardware tests used a safety hoist. No nails were fired and hammer impact was not measured. Roof edges, shingles and weather were outside the test setup.
That 10/10 to 0/10 drop at an unseen slope is a very concrete look at how narrow locomotion generalization can still be for humanoids.
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