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summary: "Researchers from Stanford and Caltech had a humanoid robot powered by GPT-6 Astra independently tidy up an unfamiliar kitchen. Their HomeBody system skips a specially trained control layer, letting the language model call directly into modular skills like grasping and navigating. The article Researchers plug GPT-6 Astra directly into a robot and let it clean up an unfamiliar kitchen appeared first on The Decoder ."
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# Researchers plug GPT\-6 Astra directly into a robot and let it clean up an unfamiliar kitchen

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**Published:** 2026-09-27T10:59:11.000Z
**Category:** Research
**Topics:** openai, agent

## Summary

Researchers from Stanford and Caltech had a humanoid robot powered by GPT\-6 Astra independently tidy up an unfamiliar kitchen\. Their HomeBody system skips a specially trained control layer, letting the language model call directly into modular skills like grasping and navigating\. The article Researchers plug GPT\-6 Astra directly into a robot and let it clean up an unfamiliar kitchen appeared first on The Decoder \.

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