ManipArena: Comprehensive Real-world Evaluation of Reasoning-Oriented Generalist Robot Manipulation
Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models and world-action models have emerged as central paradigms for general-purpose robotic intelligence, yet their empirical progress remains constrained by the absence of evaluation protocols that are both physically realistic and diagnostically controlled. Simulator-centric benchmarks provide scale and reproducibility, but cannot fully capture the reality gap induced by perception noise, contact dynamics, latency, calibration error, and hardware constraints. Conversely, real-robot evaluations are often fragmented across platforms, scenes, objects, and scoring rules, making fair comparison and failure attribution difficult. We introduce ManipArena, a standa...
| Authors | Yu Sun, Meng Cao, Yang Ping et al. |
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| Primary category | cs.RO |
| Published | 30 March 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 1 July 2026 |
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