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Toward Physical Recursive Self-Improvement: A Call for Body-Control Co-Design for Humanoid Robots

A NeurIPS 2026 Position Paper proposes body-control co-design to achieve physical Recursive Self-Improvement (RSI) in humanoid robots: using experience from the current body and policy to recursively improve both morphology and behavior at the same time. The paper discusses co-design methods grounded in strategic exploration, Sim2Real transfer, and meta-policy learning, argues for their necessity from methodological, application, and community perspectives, and lists open research questions ranging from short-term innovations to long-term goals.

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