SEAR: Self-Evolving Agentic Robotics
This matters because it separates real learning from just trying harder. The framework controls for repeated attempts, simulator bias, task familiarity, and luck across 330 simulated and five real-robot tasks. The finding that LLMs can genuinely improve robot policies that transfer to new tasks and physical hardware is significant. For roboticists and embodied AI builders, this is the validation that agents-as-programmers is not just a concept but works at scale. The four-year runtime matters.