I've been working on deformable object manipulation since my PhD. It was totally a nightmare years ago and my PhD advisor was telling me not to work on it for my own good. Today, at ByteDance Seed, we are dropping GR-RL, a new VLA+RL system that manages long-horizon precise https://t.co/XLkkoztrlP

I've been working on deformable object manipulation since my PhD. It was totally a nightmare years ago and my PhD advisor was telling me not to work on it for my own good. Today, at ByteDance Seed, we are dropping GR-RL, a new VLA+RL system that manages long-horizon precise dexterous manipulation of deformable objects. This is probably the first real-world RL system to make a robot: ✅ Lace up your shoes end to end ✅ Hit millimeter tolerance repeatedly ✅ Recover from mistakes (See video!) ✅ And complete continuous shoelace threading on a real bimanual platform 📈 Success rate: ↑ from 45.7% → 83.3% Yes, robots can now actually do this. Project page: seed.bytedance.com/en/gr_rl ArXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2512.01801