September 27, 2026
A humanoid takes on the kitchen: GPT Astra tidies up and finds things
On Sep 27, HomeBody demonstrated kitchen tasks for a humanoid controlled by GPT Astra. The system tidies up objects at the other end of the room and finds items from vague descriptions without training for a specific kitchen.
Ethan Mollick
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It is striking how LLMs have turned out to be the key to a broad range of tasks that initially do not seem like tasks for a human-language model at all.
Gio Huh @giohuh_
What can Astra do when given a humanoid embodiment? We built HomeBody to find out. Controlled by GPT Astra, it carries out long-horizon tasks in a previously unseen kitchen—from tidying up across the room to retrieving remembered objects from ambiguous requests—without environment-specific training data or additional policy learning. Here's how we did it 👀: https://tml.stanford.edu/homebody/
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LLMs used to respond to text prompts. Now GPT Astra controls a robot body in an unfamiliar kitchen and carries out a long chain of actions, from tidying up to finding an item requested by description.
Projects like these test how far a language model can go beyond conversation and code.
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