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Embodied AI benchmarks

Standardized tests measuring AI agent performance across simulated and physical robots. Every Robotics Weekly story on embodied AI benchmarks, newest first. 3 stories since October 2026.

  • Paxton waves off paper on tricking robots into stabbing

    A CoRL late breaking result says corrupted camera input makes frontier models act dangerously. One well known roboticist says that proves nothing.

    · Teleop and other arguments

  • RoboColosseum results put Astra on top in 11,398 trials

    Five VLA policies and three frontier AI agents ran in the wild, and the eval initiative says the Astra clips on X hold up at scale.

    · Shown this week

  • Sound like you were at the demo

    One email a day. Under three minutes. The demos, the deployments and the part the press release left out.

  • New benchmark runs coding agents on 1,090 embodied tasks

    Manling Li's Embodied First Exam covers 31 simulation suites and 44 robots, and there are no scores yet.

    · Shown this week

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