Show-Harness: Just a VLM Agent Can Play Robots

arXiv:2609.10522 · cs.RO, cs.AI, cs.CV, cs.MM · Submitted 2026-09-09 · Read on arXiv

cs.RO, cs.AI, cs.CV, cs.MM

Submitted: 2026-09-09

Updated: 2026-09-09

Comments: Project website: https://showlab.github.io/Show-Harness

Project page: https://showlab.github.io/Show-Harness

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Action Space — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Fine-Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Vision-Language Models (VLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes

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