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Introducing RL-100: Performant Robotic Manipulation with Real-World Reinforcement Learning. 7 real robot tasks, 900/900 successes. Up to 250 consecutive trials in one task, running 2 hours nonstop without failure. High success rate against physical disturbances, zero-shot, and few-shot adaptation Our first step toward a deployable robot learning system.

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