A developer equipped an OpenClaw AI agent with a physical robot arm from HuggingFace's LeRobot project, demonstrating that AI models can now configure robotic systems, perform object manipulation, and train other models with minimal manual intervention. The "code as policy" approach, which uses AI-powered coding to control robots, has advanced significantly and is gaining adoption across research labs, with Google DeepMind's Gemini outperforming other models on robotics benchmarks.