UC Berkeley and NVIDIA present Graph-as-Policy and VABAR robot programming work at CoRL 2026
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UC Berkeley and NVIDIA presented Graph-as-Policy at CoRL 2026 in Austin, a framework that splits robot tasks into skills that AI agents generate, connect, and test in simulation.
The team also introduced VABAR, a benchmark covering six industrial tasks with standardized variations and difficulty tiers, built on Isaac Lab-Arena and Newton.
Ken Goldberg says a graduate student's RoboSimStudio interface let a frontier model produce a Newton simulation closely matching a video within about an hour.
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AIUC Berkeley and NVIDIA presented Graph-as-Policy, a framework that splits robot tasks into skills that AI agents generate, connect, and test in simulation, at CoRL 2026 in Austin. They also introduced the VABAR benchmark, which covers six industrial tasks with standardized variations and difficulty tiers, built on Isaac Lab-Arena and Newton. Goldberg says a graduate student's RoboSimStudio interface let a frontier model produce a Newton simulation closely matching a video within about an hour.
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