Jim Fan's NVIDIA GEAR Lab Releases ENPIRE: Coding Agents Run the Full Robotics Research Loop on Real Hardware, 99% pass@8 on Contact-Rich Tasks

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NVIDIA's GEAR Lab (with CMU and UC Berkeley) released ENPIRE, a closed-loop system where frontier coding agents reset physical scenes, run hardware trials, verify outcomes, and rewrite code until a policy works — what co-lead Linxi 'Jim' Fan calls 'AutoResearch in the physical world for the first time.' Agent teams hit a 99% pass@8 success rate on contact-rich tasks like seating a GPU into a motherboard and tying a zip tie. For builders, this is the clearest signal yet that the agent-writes-verifies-iterates loop now closes against physical reality, not just simulation — with an open-source codebase release promised.