Zetta ζ: An Efficient Closed-Loop Embodied Harness for Self-Evolving Physical Intelligence
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Zetta is a closed-loop embodied harness that evolves runtime critics and recovery skills online to govern physical execution at action frequency, achieving high success on robot benchmarks with faster inference and scaling self-exploration.
Embodied agents are increasingly used to close the gap left by end-to-end policy models. Yet the agentic path has not realized closed-loop learning in physical execution: existing harnesses remain largely open-loop, following fixed skills during rollout and reflecting only after an episode completes. Such post-hoc reflection cannot govern execution as it unfolds, because physical interaction requires decisions to track rapidly changing robot-environment states at a frequency beyond today's large agentic models. We present Zetta, a closed-loop embodied harness that evolves code-based runtime critics and recovery skills online while keeping the base policy frozen. Through three timescale-separated loops, Zetta provides action-frequency governance, rollout-level critic-recovery proposal, and validation-gated skill updates. Together with Z-Infra, a rollout infrastructure decoupling agent logic from heterogeneous execution resources, Zetta achieves state-of-the-art success on LIBERO-Pro and RoboCasa under our current rollout budget, reaching 90.8% and 93.6%, with an 11.1x inference speedup; success continues to scale with self-exploration experience; learned skills transfer zero-shot, and clear robotic "Aha Moments" emerge. These results show that closed-loop harness self-evolution opens a scaling path for reliable physical intelligence.
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We present Zetta, a closed-loop embodied harness that evolves code-based runtime critics and recovery skills online while keeping the base policy frozen. Through three timescale-separated loops, Zetta provides action-frequency governance, rollout-level critic-recovery proposal, and validation-gated skill updates. Together with Z-Infra, a rollout infrastructure decoupling agent logic from heterogeneous execution resources, Zetta achieves state-of-the-art success on LIBERO-Pro and RoboCasa under our current rollout budget, reaching 90.8% and 93.6%, with an 11.1x inference speedup; success continues to scale with self-exploration experience; learned skills transfer zero-shot, and clear robotic "Aha Moments" emerge. These results show that closed-loop harness self-evolution opens a scaling path for reliable physical intelligence.
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