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CoEvolve: Self-Evolving Code Policies from Skills to Strategies for Humanoid Robots

2026-10-16 10:56:10
Zicheng Liu, Haochen Wu, Jiawei He, Suyun Zhao, Huan Yang, Cheng Chi, Hao Tang

Abstract

Recent advances in Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models and World Action Models (WAMs) have expanded the manipulation and whole body capabilities of individual robots. Yet a single robot remains limited by its embodiment, and many real world tasks require capabilities that can only emerge through cooperation. Existing multi robot frameworks largely emphasize task decomposition, allocation, and replanning, while providing limited support for adapting executable coordination when physical execution deviates from the intended behavior. We present CoEvolve, a framework that represents team coordination as executable code over fixed robot motor skills. CoEvolve introduces Verifier Guided Coordination Evolution, where a multimodal foundation model instantiates coordination strategies through motion primitives, semantic objectives, temporary robot roles, and bounded execution parameters. Physical verification evaluates each executed transition, rejected behaviors trigger structured coordination revision from an accepted checkpoint, and verified experience is retained to guide subsequent decisions. We evaluate CoEvolve with two simulated Unitree G1 humanoids transporting a freely supported rigid payload through constrained corridors. Across 15 base task runs with three multimodal backbone families, CoEvolve completes 8 tasks, with every backbone achieving end to end success. Additional evaluations yield verified placement on two additional corridor layouts and after both same-backbone and cross-backbone experience initialization, while exposing persistent limitations in motion precision and contact stability. These results support executable coordination as a practical interface for adapting long horizon multi robot collaboration under shared physical constraints.

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URL

https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.23288

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https://arxiv.org/pdf/2610.23288.pdf


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