ResearchOctober 30, 2026
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Robots now design their own brains
RoboArchitect automates agent harnesses, lifting success from 9.7% to 43.3%.
#robotics#agents#harness#persistent-memory#arXiv

š„ What happened
Stanford researchers dropped RoboArchitect: a coding model that watches robot rollouts, diagnoses failures, and rewrites the agent harness around a frozen policy ā no weight updates. Success jumps from 9.7% to 43.3% on unseen scenes.
š” Why it matters
That's a 4.5x gain from code alone. The evolved harness even beats finetuned specialists on out-of-distribution tasks. The bottleneck just moved from training to harness design ā and that's automatable.
ā” Our take
If you're still burning GPUs on finetuning instead of optimizing the harness, you're lighting money on fire. This is software eating robotics.
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