Briefing
The 2025 task list was: drive the robot with its controller, connect to video and lidar, write a manual-control program, track its path, detect the beach ball and fetch it autonomously. The controller step was dropped, since Claude could not use a physical controller. Three trials ran Opus 4.7 at maximum effort. On the four tasks both human teams finished, Anthropic reports it was more than 37 times faster than the team without Claude and more than 18 times faster than Team Claude, with almost ten times less code than Team Claude.
Claude defaulted to an outdated object-detection algorithm, which slowed one ball-detection trial. A researcher with more robotics experience wrote the autonomous fetch program. A footnote says Claude Mythos Preview was left out because its trials were not comparable.
Written by the Boards & Bots curator