SenseTime Releases Empirical Study on GPT-6-Astra Embodied Intelligence and the SenseNova-RoboRSI Framework
SenseTime has released an empirical study on GPT-6-Astra's embodied intelligence, covering 12 simulation benchmarks and 8 real robot platforms, and has simultaneously open-sourced the SenseNova-RoboRSI framework and a 27B model whose operating cost is about 1/50 that of GPT-6-Astra. Under a unified protocol (ICL plus up to 10x interaction budget), GPT-6-Astra achieved SOTA on all 12 benchmarks: RoboDojo rose from 27.6% at 1x budget to 81.9% at 10x, DexJoCo reached 87.3% versus the previous SOTA of 40.3%, and the LIBERO benchmark was pushed to saturation. The study also notes that the inference cost for simple tasks such as putting a pen into a pen holder is about $55, and that real robots overheat and wait times are too long; the conclusion is therefore that GPT-6-Astra has largely crossed the threshold of embodied capability, but practical-grade embodied intelligence has not yet arrived.
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SenseTime tested GPT-6-Astra across 12 simulation benchmarks and 8 real-robot platforms, and identified concrete gaps in cost and real-time performance.
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We release the most comprehensive 𝗲𝗺𝗽𝗶𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗱𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗚𝗣𝗧-𝟲-𝗔𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮’𝘀 𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 across 12 simulation benchmarks and 8 real-robot platforms, together with 𝗦𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗲𝗡𝗼𝘃𝗮-𝗥𝗼𝗯𝗼𝗥𝗦𝗜: an open-source harness framework and a 27B model that runs at ~1/50 the cost of GPT-6-Astra.
Here's what we found: 🔹 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗽𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗰𝗲𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗺𝘂𝗰𝗵 𝗵𝗶𝗴𝗵𝗲𝗿. Under a unified protocol (ICL + up to 10× the interaction budget), GPT-6-Astra achieves clear SOTA across all 12 benchmarks: RoboDojo: 27.6% at 1× → 81.9% at 10×, DexJoCo: 87.3% vs. 40.3% prior SOTA, while the LIBERO benchmarks are pushed to saturation.
🔹 𝗧𝗼𝗼 𝗺𝘂𝗰𝗵 𝗯𝘂𝗰𝗸 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗮𝗻𝗴. Even a simple task like placing pens in a holder costs ~$55 in inference.
🔹 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀𝗻’𝘁 𝘄𝗮𝗶𝘁. Time matters as real robots overheat, and an egg burned while the model was still thinking.
Our takeaway: GPT-6-Astra has largely crossed the threshold of 𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗲𝗱 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲, but 𝗽𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 is not here yet.