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ARXIV:2603.28545 · ROBOTICS EVALUATION FRAMEWORK · SUBMITTED 31 MAR · 20:17 UTC · FRESHNESS STALE
ARXIV:2603.28545ROBOTICS EVALUATION FRAMEWORKSUBMITTED 31 MAR · 20:17 UTCFRESHNESS STALEYu Sun · Meng Cao · Ping Yang · Rongtao Xu · Yunxiao Yan · Runze Xu · +12 at arXiv
A standardized real-world evaluation framework for generalist robot manipulation models to bridge the simulation-to-reality gap.
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A standardized real-world evaluation framework for generalist robot manipulation models to bridge the simulation-to-reality gap. Existing benchmarks are largely simulator-centric, which provide controllability but fail to capture the reality gap caused by perception noise,…
Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models and world models have recently emerged as promising paradigms for general-purpose robotic intelligence, yet their progress is hindered by the lack of reliable evaluation protocols that reflect real-world deployment. Existing benchmarks…
ScienceToStartup currently rates this 7.0/10 on the public viability pass. ManipArena comprises 20 diverse tasks across 10,812 expert trajectories emphasizing reasoning-oriented manipulation tasks requiring semantic and spatial reasoning, supports multi-level generalization through controlled out-of-distribution…
Robotics Evaluation Framework moved forward this cycle; last verified April 2026. Public score 7.0/10. Production flags indicate code availability.
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A standardized real-world evaluation framework for generalist robot manipulation models to bridge the simulation-to-reality gap.
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10.48550/arXiv.2603.28545A standardized real-world evaluation framework for generalist robot manipulation models to bridge the simulation-to-reality gap.
Abstract
Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models and world models have recently emerged as promising paradigms for general-purpose robotic intelligence, yet their progress is hindered by the lack of reliable evaluation protocols that reflect real-world deployment. Existing benchmarks are largely simulator-centric, which provide controllability but fail to capture the reality gap caused by perception noise, complex contact dynamics, hardware constraints, and system latency. Moreover, fragmented real-world evaluations across different robot platforms prevent fair and reproducible comparison. To address these challenges, we introduce ManipArena, a standardized evaluation framework designed to bridge simulation and real-world execution. ManipArena comprises 20 diverse tasks across 10,812 expert trajectories emphasizing reasoning-oriented manipulation tasks requiring semantic and spatial reasoning, supports multi-level generalization through controlled out-of-distribution settings, and incorporates long-horizon mobile manipulation beyond tabletop scenarios. The framework further provides rich sensory diagnostics, including low-level motor signals, and synchronized real-to-sim environments constructed via high-quality 3D scanning. Together, these features enable fair, realistic, and reproducible evaluation for both VLA and world model approaches, providing a scalable foundation for diagnosing and advancing embodied intelligence systems.
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A standardized real-world evaluation framework for generalist robot manipulation models to bridge the simulation-to-reality gap. Existing benchmarks are largely simulator-centric, which provide controllability but fail to capture the reality gap caused by perception noise, compl...
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Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models and world models have recently emerged as promising paradigms for general-purpose robotic intelligence, yet their progress is hindered by the lack of reliable evaluation protocols that reflect real-world deployment. Existing benchmarks are lar...
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ScienceToStartup currently rates this 7.0/10 on the public viability pass. ManipArena comprises 20 diverse tasks across 10,812 expert trajectories emphasizing reasoning-oriented manipulation tasks requiring semantic and spatial reasoning, supports multi-level generalization thro...
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Robotics Evaluation Framework moved forward this cycle; last verified April 2026. Public score 7.0/10. Production flags indicate code availability.
To address these challenges, we introduce ManipArena, a standardized evaluation framework designed to bridge simulation and real-world execution.
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Existing benchmarks are largely simulator-centric, which provide controllability but fail to capture the reality gap caused by perception noise, complex contact dynamics, hardware constraints, and system latency.
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This design enables disentangling the individual and combined effects of OOD factors on model performance.
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DreamZero, due to its autoregressive video generation pipeline, requires ∼7–8s per step... roughly 50–70× slower than VLA inference.
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Multi-task training produces a clear trade-off: it enhances cross-task visual recognition... at the cost of task-specific procedural memory.
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ManipArena comprises 20 diverse tasks across 10,812 expert trajectories emphasizing reasoning-oriented manipulation tasks requiring semantic and spatial reasoning.
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The green-screen environment... eliminates uncontrolled visual confounders, ensuring that performance differences are attributable to the variables we design.
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