ManipArena

Real-world reasoning-oriented manipulation benchmark (CVPR 2026): 20 tasks, 10.8k trajectories, ~188h, 5 robots, LeRobot v2.1.

Dataset specifications
Year2026
Episodes10,812
Total hours188
Embodimentsparallel_jaw, aloha
Modalitiesee_pose, language, proprioception, rgb
Task categoriesmanipulation, navigation
LicenseApache-2.0
Accessopen — commercial use permitted
MaintainerManipArena (SYSU x MBZUAI)

ManipArena is a comprehensive real-world benchmark for evaluating reasoning-oriented generalist robot manipulation, run as a CVPR 2026 Embodied AI Workshop challenge. It provides 10,812 expert trajectories (~188 hours, 13.5M frames) across 20 real tasks spanning execution-reasoning, semantic-reasoning, and long-horizon mobile manipulation, plus 3 synchronized real-to-sim tasks built via 3D scanning for fair Vision-Language-Action and world-model comparison. Demonstrations are recorded on 5 robot platforms with 3 synchronized RGB cameras (one overhead + two wrist), 56-D proprioception (joint positions/velocities/currents), gripper and mobile-base states, and three-level language annotations, in LeRobot v2.1 format.