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Research2026-06-18 · source-backed
NVIDIA's GEAR Lab, with CMU and UC Berkeley, released a closed-loop system where coding agents reset physical scenes, run hardware trials, verify outcomes, and rewrite code until a policy works. Jim Fan calls it "AutoResearch in the physical world." Agent teams hit 99% pass@8 on tasks like seating a GPU into a motherboard and tying a zip tie. This is the clearest signal yet that write-verify-iterate closes against reality, not just simulation, and the codebase is promised open. (Tech Times)
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