Towards the Harness of Embodied Agents
Quick summary
arXiv:2608.11246v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The success of coding agents has established the harness as a paradigm: what an agent achieves depends not on the model alone, but on the infrastructure around it. We ask whether the same paradigm extends to embodied agents in the physical world. We present Thea, a harness in which an agentic loop orchestrates robot capabilities, each wrapped as a callable tool. It inherits the core components of coding agents, modified as the physical world requires. The world, however, withholds two abilities that software grants for free: reading the state of
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2608.11246v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The success of coding agents has established the harness as a paradigm: what an agent achieves depends not on the model alone, but on the infrastructure around it.
- We ask whether the same paradigm extends to embodied agents in the physical world.
- We present Thea, a harness in which an agentic loop orchestrates robot capabilities, each wrapped as a callable tool.
Why it matters
AI progress is not only a software story. Chips, data centers and energy decisions help determine which models can operate economically and what end users ultimately pay.
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