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An agent writes the code now, and a human thumb hovers over Accept all a hundred times a day. The honest question of this decade is what, exactly, you just accepted. So I read the diff.

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ToyBlocks: A controlled world for robot learning and evaluation

11.06

ToyBlocks is an open simulation framework for studying robot learning through automated task generation, training demonstrations, and evaluation in a controlled tabletop world.

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