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    "body_text": "Self-improving robot harnesses can waste scarce hardware trials testing changes that do not distinguish competing explanations. EmbodiedRSI keeps a graph of code and skill hypotheses, chooses experiments by value of information, and uses outcomes to evolve both runtime code and reusable skills. A slower memory system retains only experience that improves later fast decisions. The authors report 77.0% overall success on RoboCasa365 versus 40.1% for the strongest baseline, 86.8% on LIBERO-Pro and 71.3% after zero-shot transfer to a real robot across the tested tasks. The claims combine benchmark and controlled robot evidence; the core systems idea is to make every physical trial adjudicate a hypothesis rather than merely add another trajectory.",
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