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Robot-Use Agents: Why General-Purpose Models May Win in Robotics

September 26, 2026

Francois (0:00)

One of the big surprises the last few years has been the generalizability of coding agents across different domains. And now Frontier researchers are showing that this includes controlling robots. This led MIT professor Philip Isola to suggest in a recent viral essay that we may be entering the era of robot use…

Maybe you guys want to briefly introduce yourselves, and just say a little bit about what each of your companies focuses on.

Hanmei (0:40)

I'm Hanmei. I'm from Waddle Labs together with Vincent. We work on building LLMs that control robots, and we do this by doing two things. Building a harness that allows the LLMs to do this very effectively, collecting data and then using that data to train better LLMs.

Jay (0:54)

Hi, I'm Jay, co-founder of RoboCurve.

We are an evalus company for physical AI. We measure everything, any robot, any model, including LLMs, and also classical approaches such as VLAs, Vision Language Action Models, and Word Action Models, and we evaluate all kinds of embodiments like hands, grippers, arms, humanoids, quadrupeds, all kinds of stuff.

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