{"slug": "researchers-plug-gpt-6-astra-directly-into-a-robot-and-let-it-clean-up-an", "title": "Researchers plug GPT-6 Astra directly into a robot and let it clean up an unfamiliar kitchen", "summary": "Researchers from Stanford and Caltech ran a humanoid robot powered by GPT-6 Astra through an independent kitchen-tidying task in an unfamiliar kitchen, using a system called HomeBody that skips a specially trained control layer and lets the language model call directly into modular skills such as grasping and navigating. The work demonstrates direct language-model control of a robot's low-level skills without a dedicated trained control layer.", "body_md": "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.\n\nThe article [Researchers plug GPT-6 Astra directly into a robot and let it clean up an unfamiliar kitchen](https://the-decoder.com/researchers-plug-gpt-6-astra-directly-into-a-robot-and-let-it-clean-up-an-unfamiliar-kitchen/) appeared first on [The Decoder](https://the-decoder.com).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/researchers-plug-gpt-6-astra-directly-into-a-robot-and-let-it-clean-up-an", "canonical_source": "https://the-decoder.com/researchers-plug-gpt-6-astra-directly-into-a-robot-and-let-it-clean-up-an-unfamiliar-kitchen/", "published_at": "2026-09-27 10:59:11+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-27 11:29:05.743149+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["robotics", "large-language-models", "ai-agents", "ai-research"], "entities": ["Stanford", "Caltech", "GPT-6 Astra", "HomeBody"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/researchers-plug-gpt-6-astra-directly-into-a-robot-and-let-it-clean-up-an", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/researchers-plug-gpt-6-astra-directly-into-a-robot-and-let-it-clean-up-an.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/researchers-plug-gpt-6-astra-directly-into-a-robot-and-let-it-clean-up-an.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/researchers-plug-gpt-6-astra-directly-into-a-robot-and-let-it-clean-up-an.jsonld"}}