Robot Manipulation Benchmarks

Overview

They range from simulated tabletop grasping and placement suites such as LIBERO and RoboCasa to real-robot tests of insertion, dexterous hands, bimanual work, mobile manipulation, and deformable or industrial objects. Common designs pair standardized task protocols and demonstrations with controlled shifts in objects, scenes, cameras, dynamics, or instructions; evaluation increasingly adds stage-level progress, recovery, motion quality, force and tactile interaction, and temporal safety to task success. Researchers use simulation, real-world rollouts, and matched sim-to-real protocols to compare imitation- and reinforcement-learning policies, vision-language-action models, and planning or memory systems. The central challenge is making scores both reproducible and diagnostic: success on fixed tasks may hide shortcuts, unsafe behavior, weak generalization, and gaps between simulated and physical performance.

Latest papers

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316 papers85 papers in the last four weeks, up 81% on the four weeks before. 0.5% of all new papers.

  1. RoboAtom: Large-scale Atomic-Action Supervision for Robot Learning

    Oct 29, 2026Xueyuan Wei, Xuanxu Wang, Xudong Li +10Robot Manipulation DatasetsRobot Skill Learning

  2. EgoContact: Evaluating Physical Intelligence with Egocentric Video

    Oct 29, 2026Adam Deryło, Alexey Gavryushin, Daniel Cremers +2Robot Manipulation DatasetsRobot Manipulation Benchmarks

  3. Tracking Task Progress Through Errors and Recovery:A Benchmark and Recurrent Distributional Model

    Oct 29, 2026Chen Wang, Xinze Niu, Zihao Zhu +8Robot Task Progress EstimationRobotics

  4. DexSuite: An All-in-One Framework for Dexterous Manipulation Across Arms, Hands, and Tasks

    Oct 27, 2026Anas Houssaini, Hugo He, Junming Shi +19Robotic ManipulationRobotics Simulation

  5. Kinematic Constraint-Referenced Evaluation for Articulated Object Manipulation

    Oct 27, 2026Baptiste Bonin, Caro Strickland, Audrey DurandArticulated Object ManipulationRobotic Policy Evaluation

  6. EmbodiedLab: Benchmarking Embodied Agents That Act to Know

    Oct 26, 2026Hongcheng Gao, Zelin Zheng, Alex Zhou +18Embodied Agent BenchmarksAI Agents for Scientific Discovery

  7. RobotAgentBench: Towards Open-world Robot Autonomy

    Oct 26, 2026Lingjun Mao, Jinglin Cao, Lukun He +22Embodied Agent BenchmarksRobot Manipulation Benchmarks

  8. How High Can GPT-6 Astra Climb in Contact-Rich Manipulation? PhysLadder: A Hierarchical, Matched Sim-Real Benchmark for Physical Interaction

    Oct 25, 2026Haibao Yu, Jiaqi Meng, Zijian Zhang +16Contact-Rich Robotic ManipulationRobot Manipulation Benchmarks

  9. BEHAVIOR-Spatial Benchmark: Evaluating Spatial Understanding for Robotics

    Oct 25, 2026Sirui Chen, Huang Huang, Qineng Wang +5Spatial Reasoning BenchmarksSpatial Grounding for VLA Models

  10. Predictive Long-Horizon Progress Modeling with Action-Aware Quantification

    Oct 23, 2026Tianchi Xu, Yalin Zheng, Yangxin Zhu +4Robot Task Progress EstimationLong-Horizon Robotic Manipulation

  11. Memory before Goal: Role of Pre-History Memory for Humanoid Loco-Manipulation

    Oct 22, 2026Chenyuan Chen, Ran Ding, Lechen Zhang +2Humanoid Loco-ManipulationLong-Term Memory for Embodied Agents

  12. AstroBench: Benchmarking Free-Floating Capture and Space Robotic Manipulation

    Oct 22, 2026Zizhe Wang, Jia Deng, Xin Lu +3Space RoboticsRobot Manipulation Benchmarks

  13. LocoManiLab: A Unified Testbed for Data, Policies, Controllers, and Deployment in Humanoid Loco-Manipulation

    Oct 22, 2026Dewei Wang, Jinrui Han, Jiyuan Shi +11Humanoid Loco-ManipulationLoco-Manipulation

  14. From Reasoning to Action: Benchmarking Frontier AI Models on LIBERO-10 Robot Manipulation Tasks

    Oct 21, 2026May Espinola, Qifan Zhang, Yu XiangRobotic ManipulationZero-Shot Robotic Manipulation

  15. Plausible Future, Wrong Choice: Steering World-Action Models toward Intended Future

    Oct 20, 2026Zhuohao Li, Jiawei He, Yuxuan Yan +11World Models for RoboticsWorld Action Models

  16. Large Multimodal Models for Direct Robot Control: GPT-6 as a Beginning

    Oct 20, 2026Youwei Zhou, Bohan Hou, Yankai Fu +10Robotic ManipulationZero-Shot Robotic Manipulation

  17. JARVIS: From Visual Manuals to Autonomous Robotic Assembly

    Oct 20, 2026Fan Ding, Fucai Ke, Kevin Yuchen Ma +5Robotic AssemblyLong-Horizon Robotic Manipulation

  18. HATCH: Hardware-Attested Task Chains for Verifiable Manipulation

    Oct 20, 2026Shiza CharaniaRobot Manipulation BenchmarksEmbodied Agent Benchmarks

  19. HandsOn: A Large-Scale Simulation Benchmark for Generalizable Dexterous Manipulation

    Oct 19, 2026Tianwei Luo, Yiming He, Hongjin Wu +14Robotic ManipulationRobot Manipulation Benchmarks

  20. RoboValue: A Fine-Grained Sim-and-Real Benchmark for Unified Evaluation of Robotic Value Models

    Oct 19, 2026Shengbang Liu, Zhengye Du, Zhilong Wan +16Robot Manipulation BenchmarksRobotic Policy Evaluation

  21. T(R,O) Grasp++: Cross-Embodiment Dexterous Grasping in Cluttered Environments at Scale

    Oct 18, 2026Xin Fei, Zhixuan Xu, Huaicong Fang +5Robotic GraspingCross-Embodiment Robot Learning