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Show-Harness: Enabling Direct Robot Control for VLM Agents via Semantic Interfaces

First seen · 9/9/2026, 04:00 AMLatest activity · 9/10/2026, 01:53 AM

Translating general-purpose vision-language models into physical robot control typically demands expensive embodiment-specific pretraining. Show-Harness bypasses heavy end-to-end policy learning by introducing discrete semantic action units that VLMs can reason over directly, coupled with deterministic interpreters for local execution. This setup enables zero-shot robotic control with frontier proprietary VLMs and allows compact open-source models to adapt in just a few GPU hours. Supported by GUMI, a demonstration collection tool requiring no specialized teleoperation rigs, the system illustrates how structured semantic interfaces can unlock real-world manipulation.

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Reporting Timeline

  1. AggregatorHuggingFace Daily Papers9/9, 04:00 AMnot independent
    Show-Harness: Just a VLM Agent Can Play Robots
  2. AggregatorarXiv9/10, 01:53 AMnot independentRepresentative
    Show-Harness: Enabling Direct Robot Control for VLM Agents via Semantic Interfaces