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arXiv AI By Yuna Oikawa, Kei Endo, Takanori Uzawa, Yunzhe Zhang, Manan Anjaria, Lerrel Pinto, Sherry Yang, Koji Tsuda

WetRobo: A Reproducible Robot Kit for Coding Agents in Biological Laboratories

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WetRobo is a reproducible robot kit designed to enable wet‑lab researchers to delegate tasks to coding agents without teleoperation or neural‑network training. The kit includes a robot arm, essential lab equipment, pre‑recorded teleoperation demos, and a skill file, allowing a coding agent to observe the lab, write, and execute programs using external tools. Experiments with OpenAI Codex on tasks such as lifting a Petri dish lid, removing a bottle cap, and opening an incubator door demonstrated successful performance in two different laboratories, outperforming a fine‑tuned vision‑language‑action policy that failed to transfer.

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