Article: Can Your AI Engineer a Robot?

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jimdi...@gmail.com

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Sep 19, 2026, 1:19:04 AM (5 days ago) Sep 19
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Interesting new benchmark called RLE for AI agents in robotics engineering. Looks like GPT-6 Astra has the top mark for now.

 

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Model / Harness

RLE Index

1

GPT-6 Astra

OpenAI · Codex

73.4

2

Claude Opus 5

Anthropic · Claude Code

53.4

3

GPT-5.6 Sol

OpenAI · Codex

48.7

4

DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash

DeepSeek AI · Claude Code

38.9

5

Gemini 3.7 Flash

Google · Antigravity CLI

26.8

 

 

Can Your AI Engineer a Robot? [9/17, Harvard University News]

The new benchmark contains 48 tasks that test whether general-purpose coding agents can perform the kinds of engineering work required to build and operate robotic systems. Tasks range from developing control and perception algorithms to designing robot hardware and interfaces. RLE-Bench is open source and publicly available, allowing researchers to evaluate new AI systems on a common set of tasks.

 

Jim

Alan Timm

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Sep 19, 2026, 12:54:54 PM (4 days ago) Sep 19
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Interesting...

Lloyd and I will need to check that out.

Up to this point Lloyd has been self-improving only himself, we'll take a look at the benchmark as well as investigating whether or not he's ready to start working on Alfie.

Thanks!

Alan 

dr steve

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Sep 19, 2026, 1:04:52 PM (4 days ago) Sep 19
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Hi Alan, 
Can you post the login for today’s  meeting please? 



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Alan Timm

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Sep 19, 2026, 1:12:32 PM (4 days ago) Sep 19
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Hey Dr. Steve!

There's no meeting today.  We cancelled last Saturday's meeting in order to man a booth at the oc maker faire.

We'll be back on our regular cadence next Month October 10th at 10am sharp.

See you next month!

Alan

dr steve

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Sep 19, 2026, 1:15:14 PM (4 days ago) Sep 19
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Ahhh that makes sense !  I missed the OC faire by going to Burningman.  

Thanks for letting me know

Steve
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