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arXiv Robotics — research abstracts· Shengguang Wu, Suning Huang, Cherie Ho, Ria Doshi, Hao Zhu, Serena Yeung-Levy·· 8 hours agoSignalEditorial score75

RoboArchitect: Automating the Design of Robotic Agents with Persistent Memory

RoboArchitect: Automating the Design of Robotic Agents with Persistent Memory

Summary

This research introduces RoboArchitect, a system that automates the design of robotic agent harnesses by observing robot rollouts, diagnosing failures, and iteratively revising control strategies. Without updating any model weights, RoboArchitect increases average success rates from 9.7% to 43.3% on unseen scenes and from 12.7% to 40.2% on unseen tasks across multiple benchmarks. The system automatically designs intuitive control strategies, such as lifting a jammed arm or navigating around obstacles, and evolves its own persistent memory to carry learned experience into later decisions. These results suggest that substantial improvements in robotic manipulation can be achieved by optimizing the agent harness rather than fine-tuning model weights.

Editorial context

The study demonstrates that automating the design of robotic agent harnesses using a coding model can significantly improve performance on unseen scenes and tasks without updating model weights, achieving up to a 4.5x increase in success rates across multiple benchmarks.

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    ing on a novel setup. In RoboArchitect, a coding model observes a robot's rollouts, diagnoses failures, and iteratively revises the harness around the frozen policy. The harness evolves on a set of episodes for its optimization and is evaluated on held-out scenes and tasks. Without updating any model weights, RoboArchitect raises average success from 9.7% to 43.3% on unseen scenes (4.5x) and from 12.7% to 40.2% on un
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ing on a novel setup. In RoboArchitect, a coding model observes a robot's rollouts, diagnoses failures, and iteratively revises the harness around the frozen policy. The harness evolves on a set of episodes for its optimization and is evaluated on held-out scenes and tasks. Without updating any model weights, RoboArchitect raises average success from 9.7% to 43.3% on unseen scenes (4.5x) and from 12.7% to 40.2% on un

Open source S3

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