Stanford wired a chatbot straight into a humanoid's five skills.
Stanford and Caltech researchers let OpenAI's Astra model steer a Unitree G1 humanoid directly. The robot first walks around an unfamiliar room and builds a private three-dimensional copy. It then tidies up or fetches medicine, until its finger motors overheat.
Why it mattersHome robots normally need fresh training data for every new room. This one skips that, so cheap hardware limits now matter more than the brain.
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