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Debate2Create: Robot Co-design via Multi-Agent LLM Debate

Robotics 2026-02-24 v2 Machine Learning Multiagent Systems

Abstract

We introduce Debate2Create (D2C), a multi-agent LLM framework that formulates robot co-design as structured, iterative debate grounded in physics-based evaluation. A design agent and control agent engage in a thesis-antithesis-synthesis loop, while pluralistic LLM judges provide multi-objective feedback to steer exploration. Across five MuJoCo locomotion benchmarks, D2C achieves up to 3.2×3.2\times the default Ant score and 9×\sim9\times on Swimmer, outperforming prior LLM-based methods and black-box optimization. Iterative debate yields 18--35% gains over compute-matched zero-shot generation, and D2C-generated rewards transfer to default morphologies in 4/5 tasks. Our results demonstrate that structured multi-agent debate offers an effective alternative to hand-designed objectives for joint morphology-reward optimization.

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@article{arxiv.2510.25850,
  title  = {Debate2Create: Robot Co-design via Multi-Agent LLM Debate},
  author = {Kevin Qiu and Marek Cygan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.25850},
  year   = {2026}
}
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