# Bad Influence story: UC Berkeley and NVIDIA present Graph-as-Policy and VABAR robot programming work at CoRL 2026

Active · 1 article · 1 source · First reported 11-11 07:55. Times are ET.
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Latest update (11-11 07:55): UC Berkeley and NVIDIA present agentic robot programming research at CoRL 2026

Overview: 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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1. 11-11 07:55 · The Robot Report · [UC Berkeley and NVIDIA present agentic robot programming research at CoRL 2026](https://badinfluence.news/items/kc9ld1a37i80kxmdszmxe2w2e)
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