FMB (Functional Manipulation Benchmark)

Berkeley real-world Franka Panda benchmark: 22,550 expert demos of grasping, repositioning, and assembly with RGB-D, proprioception, and force/torque.

Dataset specifications
Year2024
Episodes22,550
Total hours31
Embodimentsfranka_panda
Modalitiesdepth, ee_pose, force_torque, language, proprioception, rgb
Task categoriesmanipulation
LicenseCC-BY-4.0
Accessopen — commercial use permitted
MaintainerUC Berkeley (RAIL / Robotic AI & Learning Lab)

FMB is a real-world robotic manipulation benchmark from UC Berkeley's RAIL lab for studying functional manipulation, where a Franka Panda arm composes skills (grasping, repositioning, assembly/insertion) using 3D-printed objects on assembly boards. It comprises 22,550 expert demonstration trajectories across single-object and multi-object multi-stage tasks, recorded from 2 global and 2 wrist Intel RealSense D405 cameras (RGB + depth) plus proprioception and end-effector force/torque. Raw data ships as .npy dictionaries with code to convert into RLDS for training imitation-learning baselines.