Anthropic’s Project Fetch: Claude programs a robodog

Claude Opus 4.7 programmed a robodog about 20x faster than last year’s best human team aided by Opus 4.1, even though the dog still failed to fetch the ball

New Frontier Red Team blog: Phase 2 of Project Fetch, where we test how well Claude can program a robodog. Opus 4.7, on its own, was ~20x faster than last year's best human team aided by Opus 4.1. (The robodog, alas, still failed to fetch
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