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GrowBot, the $80 robot handed to ChatGPT, keeps Brit Cruise's shelf busy

No new Art of the Problem videos went up, and the robot story from May has passed five million views.

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Art of the Problem Story of October 9, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.

I Gave ChatGPT a Body

Twenty weeks after it went up, "I Gave ChatGPT a Body" is still the video doing most of the work on Art of the Problem. Brit Cruise posted nothing new this week, and his channel leaned on the robot he calls GrowBot.

The idea, as the description lays it out, was the simplest robot that could learn everything from scratch: a Raspberry Pi Zero 2, two servos, a camera and some 3D printed parts, about $80 in all. Small neural networks taught it to walk and spin in simulation, then a vision language model took over the motors, wrote its own code, built profiles of the people it met and "dreamed" between sessions. Then it hit a wall: how do you move smoothly when thinking is slow? That question sends the video into the cerebellum, nature's answer, and into the robotics research the tags name, from DayDreamer to RT-2.

Behind it, two older deep dives keep a steadier pace. "The Alien Signal That Looked Intelligent" has crossed a million views by running Jocelyn Bell's pulsars, the Wow Signal and Zipf's law through Claude Shannon's information theory, the subject of Cruise's own series a dozen years ago. "A Rock Is Trapped Light" traces matter from Greek lodestones to Kelvin's vortex atoms.

Views ran a little under the channel's usual pace, and about a thousand new subscribers arrived. Among the science channels nearest its size, Ziroth and Bizarre Beasts had the lively weeks, while Event Horizon and Fran Blanche stayed calm.

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The videos drawing views on Art of the Problem right now

The Alien Signal That Looked Intelligent1,003,552 views

A Rock Is Trapped Light1,209,069 views

The facts

Channel: Art of the Problem
Subscribers: 392,000 ▲ 1,000 this week
Channel views, last 7 days: 243,126
Videos published this week: 0

The numbers

Here is how Art of the Problem's week looks in figures.

views gained this week: this channel and similar channels

Astrum Earth

3,197,878

Astrum Extra

1,543,590

Ziroth

588,265

Looking Glass Universe

317,563

243,126

216,536

169,854

118,069

76,580

subscribers

392,000

▲ 1,000 in the last 7 days

total views

27,177,787

views per day

32,632

typical day: 39,888

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

Ziroth

522,000

Astrum Earth

490,000

Looking Glass Universe

468,000

448,000

399,000

392,000

334,000

326,000

299,000

As of October 9, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.

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Claude Shannon, whose information theory runs through the alien signal video, laid out its foundations in a 1948 paper while working at which lab?