27B vision-language-action robot policy trained entirely in simulation with RL on 40 simple tasks, yet performs unseen tasks on real robots, matching GPT-6 Astra's success rate faster and cheaper. Only a paper released so far.
ZAP at a glance
- What is ZAP?
- ZAP is a model. 27B vision-language robot policy trained only in simulation, run zero-shot on a real bimanual robot.
- Does ZAP work in the EU?
- Unverified. No explicit evidence found; this is a research project page with no public weights, code or product access identified. Last verified 14 Nov 2026.
- How much does ZAP cost?
- Pricing unknown. Research release; no pricing or access program found. Cost figures on the page ($0.29 per task) are inference-cost comparisons from the authors.
- Where was ZAP shown?
- In 1 creator video by AI Search. Most recently by AI Search on 8 Nov 2026, at 29:09 in “Weight space programming, new 3D models, Gemini Omni 1.2, GPT Image 2.6: AI NEWS”.
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Zero-real Agent Policy (ZAP) is a 27B-parameter vision-language model post-trained to control robots through a minimal tool harness. The harness sets end-effector poses and gripper openings, with no grasp macros or motion primitives, and the same harness runs in simulation and on hardware. The model writes a plan, names objects to locate, then issues perception and movement tool calls, seeing fresh camera images and robot state on every turn.
Training uses only simulated, deliberately simple pick-and-place and stacking tasks. The model is fine-tuned on its own successful rollouts and then optimized with GRPO. There is no frontier teacher for distillation and no real-world robot data (teleoperation, demonstrations or real rollouts). The project reports zero-shot transfer to a real bimanual robot on tasks with unseen objects and goals, including placing a test tube in a rack, a mid-air bimanual handoff, drawing an X on a tic-tac-toe board and making a checkmating chess move.
On real-world tasks selected from RoboLab-120, the authors report that ZAP matches GPT-6 Astra running in the same harness. They report 146 s per task versus 397 s, and $0.29 versus $4.87 per task. Turn counts are similar (21.9 vs 19.4). These are the authors' own figures. Based on the material provided, only a project page and paper are available; no code, weights or product access were found, and the vendor is not identified in the provided text.
- 27B vision-language model acting via tool calls
- Trained only in simulation (SFT on own successes, then GRPO), no real-robot data
- Minimal harness: end-effector poses and gripper openings; same in sim and real
- Zero-shot on real bimanual robot, including unseen objects and a bimanual handoff
- Reported 3× faster and 17× cheaper per task than GPT-6 Astra
- Steerable by language instructions
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