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RoboGene is an agentic framework designed to generate diverse and informative manipulation tasks for single-arm, dual-arm, and mobile robots. It employs diversity-driven sampling, agentic self-reflection for task quality assessment, and human-verified feedback memory to validate and refine tasks. The framework produced 18,000 real-world trajectories and introduced new metrics for task feasibility and diversity, outperforming models like GPT‑4o and Gemini 2.5 Pro in training VLA models that achieve higher success rates and stronger generalization.

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