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One prompt to physical robot: a dancing 12-DOF jack-o'-lantern

Aaron Saunders and the Google DeepMind team had AI agents design, simulate, and bring to life a physical 12-degree-of-freedom jack-o'-lantern robot from a single plain-English prompt, with no manual CAD. The robot dances.

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Robot hardware at Google DeepMind

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31 October 2026

Aaron Saunders@a_ron_saunders

While most jack-o-lanterns just sit on porches, the @GoogleDeepMind team decided to let AI agents design, simulate, and bring one to life. 🎃🤖

We built a physical, dancing 12 degrees of freedom robot directly from a single plain-English prompt, with no manual CAD required!

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