# 6 Months of Graduate Labor, Eliminated by One Framework

- slug: 6-months-of-graduate-labor-eliminated-by-one-framework
- date: 2026-04-02
- category: Robotics

Reward engineering eats months of grad student labor per robot task. A CMU/Amazon framework automates it — but the paper shows picking the wrong vision model breaks the whole system, and nobody fully understands why.

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