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OpenRUA: Robot-Use Agents Are Zero-Shot Visuomotor Policies
OpenRUA is a preprint describing a zero-abstraction harness that lets off-the-shelf coding agents control a robot through its native ROS 2 terminal interface, without bespoke primitives or learned policies. In simulation, Claude Code powered by Claude Opus 5 reached 99.0% success on CaP-Bench and 87.0% on LIBERO-PRO, and on RoboCasa365 it held unseen composite task performance at 28.1% while baselines collapsed. This matters because it suggests frontier coding agents plus a mature robot middleware stack may be a practical zero-shot alternative to training VLAs or hand-engineering agent wrappers.