On Agentic Manipulation Policies

Chen Chen†, Omid Bagherieh†, Naveen Nikamanth Appiah Balaji†, Jesse T. Gonzalez†, Negin Heravi†, Fahad Islam†, Xueting Li†, Jean-Baptiste Regli†, Kejia Ren†, Petr Švec†, David J. Yoon†, Matthias Müller, Vladlen Koltun

Apple

†These authors contributed equally to this work.

Real-world trials

Benchmarks

86%
RoboLab-120
#1 on leaderboard
95.2%
LIBERO-PRO (CaP-Gym)
Best zero-shot
100%
robosuite (CaP-Gym)
Uni- and bimanual
96.0%
BEHAVIOR-1K (CaP-Gym)
Mobile manipulation
84.1%
RoboDojo
Best public number after practice

Method overview

In AMP1, a frontier model controls the robot by writing Python code that calls a harness for sensing (RGB-D images, calibration, a fused point cloud), perception (a scene model it can correct) and motion (timed end-effector waypoints and gripper commands). It decides what to observe and can check each outcome before acting again.

PromptPick up the banana and place it in the bowl

Turn 1Read task and perceive scene

Citation

@article{2026amp,
  title   = {On Agentic Manipulation Policies},
  author  = {Chen, Chen and
             Bagherieh, Omid and
             Appiah Balaji, Naveen Nikamanth and
             Gonzalez, Jesse T. and
             Heravi, Negin and
             Islam, Fahad and
             Li, Xueting and
             Regli, Jean-Baptiste and
             Ren, Kejia and
             {\v{S}}vec, Petr and
             Yoon, David J. and
             M{\"u}ller, Matthias and
             Koltun, Vladlen},
  journal = {arXiv preprint},
  year    = {2026}
}