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A coding agent with no robot training now leads a manipulation leaderboard. It wins by measuring, and stops at contact. 1 2

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HexaShell: A Thin Harness for Exploring the Limits of VLM Agents as Robot Coding Agents — arXiv:2610.23479v1, Hongcheng Gao, Alex Zhou, Jay Zhu and colleagues, submitted 16 Oct 2026
arxiv.org
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Hugging Face paper page, #1 of the 2026-10-19 daily papers board with 284 upvotes
huggingface.co

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A coding agent with no robot training now leads a manipulation leaderboard. It wins by measuring, and stops at contact. 1 2

1
HexaShell: A Thin Harness for Exploring the Limits of VLM Agents as Robot Coding Agents — arXiv:2610.23479v1, Hongcheng Gao, Alex Zhou, Jay Zhu and colleagues, submitted 16 Oct 2026
arxiv.org
2
Hugging Face paper page, #1 of the 2026-10-19 daily papers board with 284 upvotes
huggingface.co

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