We introduce Alexa Arena, a user-centric simulation platform for Embodied AI (EAI) research. Alexa Arena provides a variety of multi-room layouts and interactable objects, for the creation of human-robot interaction (HRI) missions. With user-friendly graphics and control mechanisms, Alexa Arena supports the development of gamified robotic tasks readily accessible to general human users, thus opening a new venue for high-efficiency HRI data collection and EAI system evaluation. Along with the platform, we introduce a dialog-enabled instruction-following benchmark and provide baseline results for it. We make Alexa Arena publicly available to facilitate research in building generalizable and assistive embodied agents.
@article{arxiv.2303.01586,
title = {Alexa Arena: A User-Centric Interactive Platform for Embodied AI},
author = {Qiaozi Gao and Govind Thattai and Suhaila Shakiah and Xiaofeng Gao and Shreyas Pansare and Vasu Sharma and Gaurav Sukhatme and Hangjie Shi and Bofei Yang and Desheng Zheng and Lucy Hu and Karthika Arumugam and Shui Hu and Matthew Wen and Dinakar Guthy and Cadence Chung and Rohan Khanna and Osman Ipek and Leslie Ball and Kate Bland and Heather Rocker and Yadunandana Rao and Michael Johnston and Reza Ghanadan and Arindam Mandal and Dilek Hakkani Tur and Prem Natarajan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.01586},
year = {2023}
}