RoboTrustBench: Benchmarking the Trustworthiness of Video World Models for Robotic Manipulation
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Abstract (arXiv)
Video world models are increasingly used in robotic manipulation, yet existing benchmarks mostly evaluate them under valid, feasible, and safe instructions. We introduce RoboTrustBench, a benchmark for evaluating the trustworthiness of video world models under four scenarios: Normal, Constraint-Sensitive, Counterfactual, and Adversarial. Built from real-world DROID episodes, RoboTrustBench contains 1,207 expert-validated instruction-image pairs and a six-dimensional evaluation protocol with 13 fine-grained criteria. Evaluating seven representative video world models with human and MLLM assessment, we find that current models often generate visually coherent videos, but struggle with constraint reasoning, counterfactual grounding, physical interaction, and unsafe-instruction suppression. These results show that visual quality and surface-level instruction following are insufficient for trustworthy robotic video world modeling.
Key facts. Cited by 6 papers in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). Placed in Embodied and robot world models, one of 11 directions in World models. Builds on 35 of its 61 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 1 Jun 2026.
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