RoboCurve tests OpenAI Astra robotic control

The author argues that general-purpose AI frontier models like OpenAI's Astra are transforming robotics by performing complex physical tasks without specialized robot-policy fine-tuning. While high inference costs and latency currently limit real-time control, the author suggests that the industry's primary bottleneck will shift from model development to deployment engineering as standardized general-purpose models emerge. Open article →