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We present DeepClaw as a reconfigurable benchmark of robotic hardware and task hierarchy for robot learning. The DeepClaw benchmark aims at a mechatronics perspective of the robot learning problem, which features a minimum design of robot…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-05-07 Fang Wan , Haokun Wang , Xiaobo Liu , Linhan Yang , Chaoyang Song

We propose a new benchmark for planning tasks based on the Minecraft game. Our benchmark contains 45 tasks overall, but also provides support for creating both propositional and numeric instances of new Minecraft tasks automatically. We…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-04-30 William Hill , Ireton Liu , Anita De Mello Koch , Damion Harvey , Nishanth Kumar , George Konidaris , Steven James

We present BulletArm, a novel benchmark and learning-environment for robotic manipulation. BulletArm is designed around two key principles: reproducibility and extensibility. We aim to encourage more direct comparisons between robotic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Dian Wang , Colin Kohler , Xupeng Zhu , Mingxi Jia , Robert Platt

Recent advances in large multimodal models have enabled new opportunities in embodied AI, particularly in robotic manipulation. These models have shown strong potential in generalization and reasoning, but achieving reliable and responsible…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Lei Zhang , Ju Dong , Kaixin Bai , Minheng Ni , Zoltan-Csaba Marton , Zhaopeng Chen , Jianwei Zhang

In the pursuit of artificial general intelligence, our most significant measurement of progress is an agent's ability to achieve goals in a wide range of environments. Existing platforms for constructing such environments are typically…

Physical reasoning is a crucial aspect in the development of general AI systems, given that human learning starts with interacting with the physical world before progressing to more complex concepts. Although researchers have studied and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Andrew Melnik , Robin Schiewer , Moritz Lange , Andrei Muresanu , Mozhgan Saeidi , Animesh Garg , Helge Ritter

Humanoid robot loco-manipulation remains constrained by the semantic-physical gap. Current methods face three limitations: Low sample efficiency in reinforcement learning, poor generalization in imitation learning, and physical…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Yutong Shen , Hangxu Liu , Kailin Pei , Ruizhe Xia , Tongtong Feng

Given the ubiquitous nature of numbers in text, reasoning with numbers to perform simple calculations is an important skill of AI systems. While many datasets and models have been developed to this end, state-of-the-art AI systems are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Swaroop Mishra , Arindam Mitra , Neeraj Varshney , Bhavdeep Sachdeva , Peter Clark , Chitta Baral , Ashwin Kalyan

Recent advancements in robotics have transformed industries such as manufacturing, logistics, surgery, and planetary exploration. A key challenge is developing efficient motion planning algorithms that allow robots to navigate complex…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Liding Zhang , Kuanqi Cai , Zewei Sun , Zhenshan Bing , Chaoqun Wang , Luis Figueredo , Sami Haddadin , Alois Knoll

In fast-paced, ever-changing environments, dynamic Motion Planning for Multi-Agent Systems in the presence of obstacles is a universal and unsolved problem. Be it from path planning around obstacles to the movement of robotic arms, or in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Brandon Ho , Batuhan Altundas , Matthew Gombolay

Despite impressive successes, deep reinforcement learning (RL) systems still fall short of human performance on generalization to new tasks and environments that differ from their training. As a benchmark tailored for studying RL…

Humans are known to have an internal "world model" that enables us to carry out action planning based on world states. AI agents need to have such a world model for action planning as well. It is not clear how current AI models, especially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Delong Chen , Willy Chung , Yejin Bang , Ziwei Ji , Pascale Fung

The ability to jointly understand the geometry of objects and plan actions for manipulating them is crucial for intelligent agents. We refer to this ability as geometric planning. Recently, many interactive environments have been proposed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Ankit Goyal , Jia Deng

Action-conditioned video models offer a promising path to building general-purpose robot simulators that can improve directly from data. Yet, despite training on large-scale robot datasets, current state-of-the-art video models still…

Automated task planning algorithms have been developed to help robots complete complex tasks that require multiple actions. Most of those algorithms have been developed for "closed worlds" assuming complete world knowledge is provided.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Yan Ding , Xiaohan Zhang , Saeid Amiri , Nieqing Cao , Hao Yang , Chad Esselink , Shiqi Zhang

Effective visual representation learning is crucial for reinforcement learning (RL) agents to extract task-relevant information from raw sensory inputs and generalize across diverse environments. However, existing RL benchmarks lack the…

Planning collision-free motions for robots with many degrees of freedom is challenging in environments with complex obstacle geometries. Recent work introduced the idea of speeding up the planning by encoding prior experience of successful…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Johannes Tenhumberg , Darius Burschka , Berthold Bäuml

Efficient tabletop rearrangement remains challenging due to collisions and the need for temporary buffering when target poses are obstructed. Prehensile pick-and-place provides precise control but often requires extra moves, whereas…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Majid Sadeghinejad , Arman Barghi , Hamed Hosseini , Mehdi Tale Masouleh , Ahmad Kalhor

We address prehensile pushing, the problem of manipulating a grasped object by pushing against the environment. Our solution is an efficient nonlinear trajectory optimization problem relaxed from an exact mixed integer non-linear trajectory…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Patrizio Perugini , Jens Lundell , Katharina Friedl , Danica Kragic

Humans anticipate, from a glance and a contemplated action of their bodies, how the 3D world will respond, a capability that is equally vital for robotic manipulation. We introduce PointWorld, a large pre-trained 3D world model that unifies…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Wenlong Huang , Yu-Wei Chao , Arsalan Mousavian , Ming-Yu Liu , Dieter Fox , Kaichun Mo , Li Fei-Fei