MolmoSpaces: A Large-Scale Open Ecosystem for Robot Navigation and Manipulation
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Abstract (arXiv)
Deploying robots at scale demands robustness to the long tail of everyday situations. The countless variations in scene layout, object geometry, and task specifications that characterize real environments are vast and underrepresented in existing robot benchmarks. Measuring this level of generalization requires infrastructure at a scale and diversity that physical evaluation alone cannot provide. We introduce MolmoSpaces, a fully open ecosystem to support large-scale benchmarking of robot policies. MolmoSpaces consists of over 230k diverse indoor environments, ranging from handcrafted household scenes to procedurally generated multiroom houses, populated with 130k richly annotated object assets, including 48k manipulable objects with 42M stable grasps. Crucially, these environments are simulator-agnostic, supporting popular options such as MuJoCo, Isaac, and ManiSkill. The ecosystem supports the full spectrum of embodied tasks: static and mobile manipulation, navigation, and multiroom long-horizon tasks requiring coordinated perception, planning, and interaction across entire indoor environments. We also design MolmoSpaces-Bench, a benchmark suite of 8 tasks in which robots interact with our diverse scenes and richly annotated objects. Our experiments show MolmoSpaces-Bench exhibits strong sim-to-real correlation (R = 0.96, rho = 0.98), confirm newer and stronger zero-shot policies outperform earlier versions in our benchmarks, and identify key sensitivities to prompt phrasing, initial joint positions, and camera occlusion. Through MolmoSpaces and its open-source assets and tooling, we provide a foundation for scalable data generation, policy training, and benchmark creation for robot learning research.
Key facts. Cited by 11 papers in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). First posted on arXiv 11 Feb 2026.
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- 2026Cosmos 3: Omnimodal World Models for Physical AIcited by 137
- 2026MolmoAct2: Action Reasoning Models for Real-world Deploymentcited by 45
- 2026Playful Agentic Robot Learningcited by 18
- 2026Guava: Distilling Frontier VLMs into a Compact Agent through a Robotic Manipulation Harnesscited by 7
- 2026RoboWorld: Fast and Reliable Neural Simulators for Generalist Robot Policy Evaluationcited by 4
- 2026MolmoMotion: Forecasting Point Trajectories in 3D with Language Instructioncited by 3
- 2026Visual Verification Enables Inference-time Steering and Autonomous Policy Improvementcited by 1
- 2026Image2Sim: Scaling Embodied Navigation via Generative Neural Simulatorcited by 1
- 2026Is Success All You Need? Investigating the Impact of Input Perturbations on VLA Behaviour in Tabletop Manipulation Taskscited by 0
- 2026GATOR: Generative and Agentic 3D Object Reconstruction From Casual Imagescited by 0
- 2026ARC: A Reasoning Recipe for Robot Foundation Modelscited by 0
- 2026ARC: A Reasoning Recipe for Robot Foundation Models8 Oct 2026
- 2026GATOR: Generative and Agentic 3D Object Reconstruction From Casual Images8 Oct 2026
- 2026Is Success All You Need? Investigating the Impact of Input Perturbations on VLA Behaviour in Tabletop Manipulation Tasks1 Oct 2026
- 2026Image2Sim: Scaling Embodied Navigation via Generative Neural Simulator7 Jul 2026
- 2026RoboWorld: Fast and Reliable Neural Simulators for Generalist Robot Policy Evaluation1 Jul 2026
- 2026Playful Agentic Robot Learning17 Jun 2026
- 2026MolmoMotion: Forecasting Point Trajectories in 3D with Language Instruction17 Jun 2026
- 2026Guava: Distilling Frontier VLMs into a Compact Agent through a Robotic Manipulation Harness16 Jun 2026
- 2026Visual Verification Enables Inference-time Steering and Autonomous Policy Improvement16 Jun 2026
- 2026Cosmos 3: Omnimodal World Models for Physical AI1 Jun 2026
- 2026MolmoAct2: Action Reasoning Models for Real-world Deployment4 May 2026