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Awesome-Astra Maps Reported GPT-6 Astra Robotics Demos

Awesome-Astra-Embodied-AI , a public GitHub repository, has assembled reported GPT-6 Astra robotics demonstrations across simulation, physical deployment, policy calls, real-to-sim replay and reinforcement-learning workflows. For developers, the practical consequence is a consolidated index whose case notes identify roles ranging from planning and trajectory generation to direct control and…

The Awesome-Astra-Embodied-AI GitHub repository has compiled reported GPT-6 Astra robotics demonstrations, covering simulation, physical deployment, policy calls, real-to-sim replay, and reinforcement-learning workflows. This compilation offers developers a consolidated index, detailing roles in planning, trajectory generation, direct control, and environment construction.

The repository includes 12 simulation cases, 10 real-world cases, one agentic policy call, six real-to-sim replay or data-rollout cases, and six RL environment and training cases. The repository demonstrates different control boundaries within a single label, such as the Unitree G1 cola-bottle case, where high-level planning is assigned to Astra and GEAR-SONIC converts the plan into a qpos trajectory for execution.

The FluxVLA case uses a different architecture, with Astra performing task inference and planning, while a pretrained FluxVLA policy handles low-level embodied actions. The repository also includes constraints that narrow the scope of claims, such as the Dual-ALOHA demonstration, which uses pregrasped states and ideal-grasp assumptions.

The physical control, reconstruction, and training aspects are covered in the 10 real-world reports, including tasks like keyboard operation, marker grasping, plug insertion, mobile manipulation, cucumber slicing, and Piper pick-and-place. The collection extends beyond robot control, featuring real-to-sim cases such as kitchen reconstruction from monocular RGB video, dexterous-hand motion reconstruction, and a multi-view workflow combining robot actions, calibration, assets, system identification, MuJoCo, and Blender.

Additionally, one training entry showcases Astra creating a pen mesh, implementing a Sharpa-hand pen-spinning task in Isaac Lab, training a PPO policy, and producing a visualization video.

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