Inspect Robots runs any LLM or VLA on a real arm — free, MIT
The open physical-AI eval layer on HN's front page now: one command drives a Franka or Unitree, streams a live 3D replay, runs GPT-6 Astra and Opus 5.
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One command, any arm or sim
`uv pip install "inspect-robots[rerun]"`, then `inspect-robots "place the fork on the plate"` drives a real arm — or CubePick, which needs no hardware. MIT-licensed, and the core is just NumPy.
Live 3D replay, auditable logs
Every run streams cameras, joint state, and actions to a Rerun viewer and saves a replayable .rrd plus an eval log — a robot result you can reproduce and inspect, not a cherry-picked demo reel.
Frontier models, now on hardware
The `--policy agent` plugin aims Claude Opus 5, Fable 5, or the days-old GPT-6 Astra at an arm; the front-page HN run right now is GPT-6 Astra controlling robot arms. 40+ served VLAs (π0.5, GR00T, OpenVLA) run the same way.
Bring your own robot
Franka FR3, Unitree G1, AgiBot A2, SO-ARM, WidowX, or any ROS 1/2 arm over rosbridge, plus Isaac Lab for sim. Define a task once, then run it across every embodiment you own.
Elsewhere: a bounty for open benchmarks
Robocurve, the YC-backed public-benefit corp behind it, is paying out for community robotics benchmarks (bounty.robocurve.org) to publish an independent read on robotics progress beyond vendor demos.