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Breakthrough 5 of 5 · October 2026

A router that never makes robots wait on the brain lifts success on perturbed tasks

REA lets a slow foundation-model agent and fast robot policies cooperate without blocking, beating the best single method on LIBERO-Pro while using fewer steps and less time.

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REA across embodiments. Left: episodes in BEHAVIOR-1K, RoboTwin 2.0 and LIBERO-Pro. Middle: route memory and the judge gate recover from silent failures on a LIBERO-Pro test episode. An Evo–Fix–Evo sequence places the bowl on the stove after the judge rejects…
REA across embodiments. Left: episodes in BEHAVIOR-1K, RoboTwin 2.0 and LIBERO-Pro. Middle: route memory and the judge gate recover from silent failures on a LIBERO-Pro test episode. An Evo–Fix–Evo sequence places the bowl on the stove after the judge rejects… Figure from “REA: A Routed Embodied Agent Runtime for Asynchronous Brain-Cerebellum Control” (arXiv)
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Foundation models can plan and write robot programs, but they are too slow to steer a robot directly. Fast policies react quickly but generalize poorly. REA is a runtime in which a router picks fast policies from a table of measured success rates, asks the slow model only when a policy finishes whether the task is really done, and escalates within a fixed budget. On 3,000 LIBERO-Pro episodes it reached 95.9% success against 94.7% for the best single method, with fewer steps and less control time. Some transfer results are small or not statistically significant.

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Three ways to couple a slow brain with fast policies. (a) An agent that calls the fast policy puts its latency on every step. (b) A fast policy that calls the agent on errors is interrupted by persistent errors and never by silent failures. (c) REA dispatches…
Figure 2. Three ways to couple a slow brain with fast policies. (a) An agent that calls the fast policy puts its latency on every step. (b) A fast policy that calls the agent on errors is interrupted by persistent errors and never by silent failures. (c) REA dispatches… Figure from “REA: A Routed Embodied Agent Runtime for Asynchronous Brain-Cerebellum Control” (arXiv)
REA on real robots. (a,b) Unitree G1 walks up to a chair and pushes it, shown from front and side external cameras; labels give time in each video. (c) AlohaMini2 block placement in a successful trial from the four-method study (trial 09): approach, lift,…
Figure 3. REA on real robots. (a,b) Unitree G1 walks up to a chair and pushes it, shown from front and side external cameras; labels give time in each video. (c) AlohaMini2 block placement in a successful trial from the four-method study (trial 09): approach, lift,… Figure from “REA: A Routed Embodied Agent Runtime for Asynchronous Brain-Cerebellum Control” (arXiv)
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