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ArmnetBench v0.1: Parallel Real-World Evaluation of Manipulation Policies on a Low-Cost Arm Farm

arXiv 2607.24481 ↗First posted 27 Jul 2026cs.ROcited by 1

On the map: Vision-language-action models → Reinforcement learning and post-training

Abstract (arXiv)

Real-world evaluation is a bottleneck in developing generalist robot manipulation policies. Each rollout requires physical hardware and an operator to set up, reset, and score it. We introduce ArmnetBench v0.1, a benchmark run on a fleet of low-cost SO-101 cells under light on-site supervision. v0.1 validates this arm farm end to end and compares 7 policies across 12 tasks with both single-arm and bimanual configurations. Each policy is trained or fine-tuned on 50 demonstrations per task; the benchmark contains 2,518 policy rollouts and 600 reference demonstrations. All 3,118 episodes carry a three-way label (successful, suboptimal, or failure). Policy rollouts are human-scored, while demonstrations are successful by construction. Beyond evaluation, its quality-labelled trajectories support downstream learning, from reward and predictive world models to policies trained on mixed-quality data. The leaderboard is an initial comparison under this shared budget. We release the 3,118 core episodes in LeRobot v3.0 and RoboMeter formats.

Key facts. Cited by 1 paper in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). Placed in Reinforcement learning and post-training, one of 13 directions in Vision-language-action models. Builds on 18 of its 21 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 27 Jul 2026.

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  1. 2025AutoEval: Autonomous Evaluation of Generalist Robot Manipulation Policies in the Real Worldcited by 46
  2. 2026MolmoAct2: Action Reasoning Models for Real-world Deploymentcited by 45
  3. 2026RoboDojo: A Unified Sim-and-Real Benchmark for Comprehensive Evaluation of Generalist Robot Manipulation Policiescited by 35
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