arXiv:2609.14473v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Personal AI assistants hold the potential to evolve from digital interfaces into embodied companions capable of guiding users through complex physical...
Gym-Anything for Robotics is a framework that uses coding agents to automatically create realistic robotics simulations, addressing the scalability bottleneck of expert-driven simulation design. By selecting tasks based on U.S. GDP data and employing an adversarial creation-audit loop, the authors built RoboWorld, a benchmark of 25 simulations with 25 test and 175 training RL environments. The paper also introduces new techniques—such as in-context learning, privileged teachers, self-assisted learning, and code policies—to improve frontier models, all of which significantly boost performance on the benchmark.
arXiv:2606. 10803v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) excel at utilizing digital APIs and increasingly serve as the "brain" of embodied AI, instructing robots to interact with the physical world.
arXiv:2507. 07445v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Autonomous agents navigating human society must master both production activities and social interactions, yet existing benchmarks rarely evaluate these skills simultaneously.
arXiv:2607. 11119v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robot manipulation is a complex task that requires visual understanding, physical reasoning, planning, and closed-loop control.
RoboSPA is a large-scale robotic manipulation dataset and benchmark designed to evaluate Vision‑Language‑Action models on fine‑grained spatial reasoning and long‑horizon procedural planning. It contains 10 task categories, 56 base tasks, and 280 variants across five difficulty levels, with 527K trajectories collected from multiple embodiments and scenes. The benchmark introduces diagnostic metrics beyond binary success, revealing that current VLA models struggle with complex spatial relations, precise execution, and memory‑intensive planning.
Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) excel at utilizing digital APIs and increasingly serve as the "brain" of embodied AI, instructing robots to interact with the physical world. In such embodied settings, a central capability is the use of physical tools, which underpins MLLMs' ability to assist humans in real-world tasks.
EgoBench is an interactive egocentric multimodal benchmark designed to evaluate tool-using AI agents. It contains 1,590 video‑grounded tasks across five daily scenarios and a user‑agent‑tool environment that enforces joint visual perception, multi‑hop reasoning, and dynamic interaction. The benchmark includes a simulated user for realistic feedback and a deterministic validation framework, revealing that current video‑MLLM agents achieve only a 34.95% average Joint Success Rate, highlighting significant capability gaps.
arXiv:2606. 26443v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A robot working alongside people must reason about what they have done, in what order, and with what intent.
arXiv:2601. 20334v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Robotic manipulation has increasingly adopted vision-language-action (VLA) models, which achieve strong performance but typically require task-specific demonstrations and fine-tuning, and often generalize poorly under domain shift.
The paper surveys 160 benchmarks from 2017‑2026 that evaluate predictive embodied intelligence, categorising them into policy suites, embodied agents, world‑model evaluation, and prediction‑to‑action bridges. It finds that most benchmarks are model‑agnostic, rarely compare Vision‑Language‑Action policies to world models, and seldom turn predictions into executed actions. The authors argue that the lack of benchmarks designed to directly test the closed‑loop advantage of world models prevents the field from answering whether such models truly improve robotic performance.
arXiv:2607. 13056v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Current vision-language-action (VLA) benchmarks primarily evaluate isolated manipulation skills while leaving human-robot interaction structure largely unmodeled.