Anthropic said Claude Opus 4.7 completed several robotics tasks far faster than human teams in a follow up to Project Fetch, an internal experiment using an off the shelf robotic quadruped.
The original experiment, run in August 2024, tested whether Anthropic employees who were not robotics experts could use Claude to perform tasks with a robodog. One team had access to Claude, while another relied only on the internet and their own problem solving.
The Claude assisted team performed better in that first test. But Anthropic said its state of the art model at the time, Claude Opus 4.1, could not complete the tasks on its own and became stuck while trying to connect to the robot.
The company has now rerun parts of the experiment with Claude Opus 4.7 operating through Claude Code. Anthropic said the newer model completed every task finished by at least one human team at least 10 times faster.
For the four tasks completed by both human teams, Claude Opus 4.7 finished in 9 minutes and 35 seconds. The team without Claude took 361 minutes, while the Claude assisted team took 181 minutes. That made Opus 4.7 about 37.7 times faster than the team without Claude and 18.9 times faster than the Claude assisted team.
