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Robocurve is working to be the METR of robotics progress, they show that GPT-6 Astra scored 95% on a robot control task, up from Fable 5.1's 40%, with 6.2x fewer output tokens at 2.3x lower cost. Recent LLM releases seem to be able to control robots somewhat competently out of the box without any embodiment gap, and has moved my own timelines for a genuine industrial transformation of the economy forward