Go to ICLR 2026 Conference homepageRobotArena $\infty$: Scalable Robot Benchmarking via Real-to-Sim Translation
Keywords: Benchmarking, Robot Policy Evaluation, Real2Sim Translation, Vision Language Action Models
Abstract: The pursuit of robot generalists, instructable 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 RobotArenaInf, a new benchmarking framework that overcomes these challenges by shifting 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 VLM-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. Benchmark website at \href{https://robotarenainf.github.io}{\texttt{robotarenainf.github.io}}.
Primary Area: datasets and benchmarks
Submission Number: 13938
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