Coding agents plan well but still struggle with dexterous, contact-rich robot tasks
ManlingLi_ · x · 2026-10-21
Quoting the Embodied First Exam benchmark, Yixuan Huang highlights its real-time evaluations: agentic robots can't deliberate during tasks requiring reaction to physical changes. Coding agents excel at tasks they can plan in advance, but agentic approaches still struggle with dexterous manipulation, dynamic control, and contact-rich tasks; tool use sits in between depending on physical interaction complexity.
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