AgenticRoboRL: Bringing Coding-Agent Post-Training to Agentic Robotics
Abstract
AgenticRoboRL improves robot planners via supervised fine-tuning and multi-turn reinforcement learning across diverse harnesses, significantly boosting success rates without external memory.
Agentic robotics systems combine planners with robot harnesses to perform complex manipulation tasks. Recent work improves these systems through better harnesses and external memory, but relies on powerful closed-source models as planners and does not improve the planners' own capabilities. In contrast, coding agents have improved substantially by post-training the model itself. We therefore investigate whether post-training can also improve robot planners. However, applying it across robot harnesses requires accommodating different execution mechanisms, including VLA skill invocation and control-code generation. To this end, we introduce AgenticRoboRL, a framework for post-training robot planners across different harnesses. The training recipe combines supervised fine-tuning with multi-turn reinforcement learning. To accommodate different execution mechanisms, harness-specific adapters connect recorded planner interactions with task outcomes, enabling a common RL training pipeline while keeping execution components fixed. On LIBERO-PRO, AgenticRoboRL raises the success rate of a 9B-parameter planner from 18.1% to 71.0% without external memory, approaching the 72.1% achieved by Codex (GPT-5.5) with external memory. These results demonstrate post-training as an effective approach for improving robot planners. We will release the framework and trained planner checkpoints.
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AgenticRoboRL trains the planner model of a robot harness inside the harness itself. A harness pairs a language model planner with robot tools: the planner may call a VLA policy as a skill, or write Python against the harness's robot APIs. The harness keeps its tools and its control loop, and only the planner is trained.
- SFT on a stronger teacher's successful trajectories, each turn rendered as the request the student would receive.
- Multi-turn RL with the simulator's success verdict as the reward. Rollouts run in the harness, and a proxy between the harness and the model server records every planner call with its token ids and log-probabilities.
- One pipeline for different harnesses. A harness is connected through a short adapter that reports which episodes form a group and how each one ended. This repository connects two harnesses, one that calls a VLA policy (RPent) and one that generates control code (CaP-X).
Code: https://github.com/xinxinliu-ai/AgenticRoboRL
Model: https://huggingface.co/ciciciciliu/AgenticRoboRL-Qwen3.5-9B
Project Page: https://xinxinliu-ai.github.io/AgenticRoboRL/
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