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RobotArena ∞: Scalable Robot Benchmarking via Real-to-Sim Translation

arXiv 2510.23571 ↗First posted 27 Oct 2025cs.RO cs.AI cs.CVcited by 15

On the map: Vision-language-action models → Failure recovery and robustness

Abstract (arXiv)

The pursuit of robot generalists, agents capable of performing diverse tasks across diverse environments, demands rigorous and scalable evaluation. Yet real-world testing of robot policies remains fundamentally constrained: it is labor-intensive, slow, unsafe at scale, and difficult to reproduce. As policies expand in scope and complexity, these barriers only intensify, since defining "success" in robotics often hinges on nuanced human judgments of execution quality. We introduce RobotArena Infinity, a new benchmarking framework that overcomes these challenges by shifting vision-language-action (VLA) evaluation into large-scale simulated environments augmented with online human feedback. Leveraging advances in vision-language models, 2D-to-3D generative modeling, and differentiable rendering, our approach automatically converts video demonstrations from widely used robot datasets into simulated counterparts. Within these digital twins, we assess VLA policies using both automated vision-language-model-guided scoring and scalable human preference judgments collected from crowdworkers, transforming human involvement from tedious scene setup, resetting, and safety supervision into lightweight preference comparisons. To measure robustness, we systematically perturb simulated environments along multiple axes, including textures and object placements, stress-testing policy generalization under controlled variation. The result is a continuously evolving, reproducible, and scalable benchmark for real-world-trained robot manipulation policies, addressing a critical missing capability in today's robotics landscape.

Key facts. Cited by 15 papers in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). Placed in Failure recovery and robustness, one of 13 directions in Vision-language-action models. Builds on 56 of its 70 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 27 Oct 2025.

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