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Robot-Use Agents: Why the Harness Matters More Than the Model

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TL;DR General-purpose LLM agents can now control robots with little or no robot-specific training. The hard engineering work is moving from the model to the harness around it: the tools it can call, the checks that run before it acts, and the evals that tell you whether a change helped. I watched Y…

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  1. 2026-10-11 11:42 · DEV Community — AI
    Robot-Use Agents: Why the Harness Matters More Than the Model

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