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An open-source robot arm taught to paint with Claude
Claude was given control of an SO-101 robot arm holding a paintbrush and iteratively improved paintings of the Golden Gate Bridge.
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The poster gave Claude (Opus 5) control of an SO-101 robot arm with a paintbrush attached and asked it to paint the Golden Gate Bridge. Claude learned the robot's controls, made calibration files and broke painting into simpler instructions.
The experiment took about 45 hours of iteration. The poster says the painting improved almost every round, with more detail added and mistakes fixed. A later post in the same series tried Starry Night with Opus 5.5, which the poster says did significantly better.
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From a short post by the maker, so the details are as they tell them.
- Reddit: An open source Robot + Claude Opus 5 = Basic PaintingReddit poster: KungRaLeoPosted
The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.
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- Reddit: Opus 5.5 painted Starry Night with a robot in 1 attemptReddit poster: KungRaLeoPosted
The follow-up post on painting Starry Night.
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