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LabUtopia: High-Fidelity Simulation and Hierarchical Benchmark for Scientific Embodied Agents

arXiv 2505.22634 ↗First posted 28 May 2025cs.RO cs.SEcited by 15

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Scientific embodied agents play a crucial role in modern laboratories by automating complex experimental workflows. Compared to typical household environments, laboratory settings impose significantly higher demands on perception of physical-chemical transformations and long-horizon planning, making them an ideal testbed for advancing embodied intelligence. However, its development has been long hampered by the lack of suitable simulator and benchmarks. In this paper, we address this gap by introducing LabUtopia, a comprehensive simulation and benchmarking suite designed to facilitate the development of generalizable, reasoning-capable embodied agents in laboratory settings. Specifically, it integrates i) LabSim, a high-fidelity simulator supporting multi-physics and chemically meaningful interactions; ii) LabScene, a scalable procedural generator for diverse scientific scenes; and iii) LabBench, a hierarchical benchmark spanning five levels of complexity from atomic actions to long-horizon mobile manipulation. LabUtopia supports 30 distinct tasks and includes more than 200 scene and instrument assets, enabling large-scale training and principled evaluation in high-complexity environments. We demonstrate that LabUtopia offers a powerful platform for advancing the integration of perception, planning, and control in scientific-purpose agents and provides a rigorous testbed for exploring the practical capabilities and generalization limits of embodied intelligence in future research.

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  1. 2025RoboRefer: Towards Spatial Referring with Reasoning in Vision-Language Models for Roboticscited by 127
  2. 2025From AI for Science to Agentic Science: A Survey on Autonomous Scientific Discoverycited by 77
  3. 2025VIKI-R: Coordinating Embodied Multi-Agent Cooperation via Reinforcement Learningcited by 18
  4. 2025OptiScene: LLM-driven Indoor Scene Layout Generation via Scaled Human-aligned Data Synthesis and Multi-Stage Preference Optimizationcited by 14
  5. 2026El Agente Quntur: A research collaborator agent for quantum chemistrycited by 8
  6. 2026LABSHIELD: A Multimodal Benchmark for Safety-Critical Reasoning and Planning in Scientific Laboratoriescited by 3
  7. 2026LabVLA: Grounding Vision-Language-Action Models in Scientific Laboratoriescited by 3
  8. 2025GauDP: Reinventing Multi-Agent Collaboration through Gaussian-Image Synergy in Diffusion Policiescited by 2
  9. 2026LabGuard: Grounding Natural-Language Laboratory Rules into Runtime Guards for Embodied Laboratory Agentscited by 2
  10. 2026Revisiting the Travel Planning Capabilities of Large Language Modelscited by 0
  11. 2026UniETP: Unifying Environments for Generalizable Embodied Task Planningcited by 0
  12. 2026LabRobFail: A Benchmark for Robotic Failure Analysis in Chemical Self-driving Laboratorycited by 0
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  1. 2026ChemWorld: Programmable Chemical Worlds for Controlled and Replayable Agent Experimentationcited by 0
  2. 2026SciHorizon-eLab: An Agentic Protocol-to-Task Compiler for Scalable Benchmarking of Scientific Embodied Agentscited by 0
  3. 2026Grounded in Time: A Multi-Source Dataset and Benchmark for Temporal Grounding in Robotic Manipulationcited by 0