NVIDIA has shown a way to automate much of robot development using OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra model, iRobotNews reports. A developer describes in natural language the task, objects and surroundings the robot should learn, and the AI agent sets up a virtual training environment and links the tools needed for simulation, training and evaluation.
GPT-6 Astra plans the work and calls NVIDIA's libraries, AI models and development tools; it acts as an agent that connects the tools rather than a model that controls the robot. It can also apply motion data recorded from real robots to the simulation and adjust its physical properties.
According to a video NVIDIA released, the main tools used were its robot learning framework Isaac Lab and its physics engine Newton.
