Democratizing Robot-Use Agents: A Unified Harness with Open Models
READ THE ORIGINAL SOURCEOpen original sourcehuggingface.co · Opens in a new tabThe paper introduces uni-robot-agent, a unified harness for robot-use agents built on open-weight models and designed to support further training. Without privileged inputs, an out-of-the-box Qwen3.8-Flash-Next scores 31.39 on the RoboDojo benchmark, above the published GPT-6 Astra-RoboProbe result of 28.97 and many VLA/WAM baselines, and performs competitively on 19 real-world tasks. Analysis across model generations, families, and sizes links effective robot use to four general capabilities, which the authors suggest should be trained jointly.
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The paper introduces uni-robot-agent, a unified harness for robot-use agents built on open-weight models and designed to support further training. Without privileged inputs, an out-of-the-box Qwen3.8-Flash-Next scores 31.39 on the RoboDojo benchmark, above the published GPT-6 Astra-RoboProbe result of 28.97 and many VLA/WAM baselines, and performs competitively on 19 real-world tasks. Analysis across model generations, families, and sizes links effective robot use to four general capabilities, which the authors suggest should be trained jointly.
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- An out-of-the-box Qwen3.8-Flash-Next scores 31.39 on RoboDojo without privileged inputs.
- This exceeds the published GPT-6 Astra-RoboProbe result of 28.97 and many VLA/WAM baselines.
- The model performs competitively on 19 real-world tasks.
- Four general capabilities are linked to effective robot use across models.
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Reliance on proprietary frontier models limits research into training robot-use agents. An open-weight harness that supports further training could let more researchers study and improve these agents.
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