Anthropic Releases Phase Two of Project Fetch: Claude Opus 4.7 Achieves 10x Speed Improvement in Robot Tasks

Odaily reported that Anthropic has released the results of Phase Two of "Project Fetch," evaluating performance improvements of its latest model in real-world robotic operations. Conducted in August 2025, the experiment tasked non-roboticist Anthropic employees with completing a series of complex operations using off-the-shelf quadruped robots. The performance of "teams assisted by Claude models" was compared against those relying solely on "human effort and the internet." The results showed that under fully autonomous operation of the latest model, Claude Opus 4.7, the average speed across all completable tasks significantly surpassed that of human teams, with execution speeds at least 10 times faster.

Anthropic states that this progress is not the result of specialized robot training but rather an extension of the capabilities of general-purpose large models. The company notes that AI is transitioning from "assisting humans in using tools" to the early stages of "directly manipulating physical tools," a path similar to the evolution towards agentic programming previously seen in software engineering.