EmbodiedLab: Benchmarking Embodied Agents That Act to Know
EmbodiedLab is a benchmark in which a robot must physically experiment to learn a result it cannot know in advance. The agent receives only an objective and the apparatus, chooses its own procedure, and operates a physics-based simulated laboratory, reading instruments through its cameras. The benchmark includes 30 experiments across five disciplines on 14 apparatus platforms, with parameters resampled per instance so outcomes are scored exactly. Six frontier models were evaluated under native control and with added perception, motion planning, and distilled manipulation skills.
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EmbodiedLab is a benchmark in which a robot must physically experiment to learn a result it cannot know in advance. The agent receives only an objective and the apparatus, chooses its own procedure, and operates a physics-based simulated laboratory, reading instruments through its cameras. The benchmark includes 30 experiments across five disciplines on 14 apparatus platforms, with parameters resampled per instance so outcomes are scored exactly. Six frontier models were evaluated under native control and with added perception, motion planning, and distilled manipulation skills.
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- With native control, even the strongest evaluated agent succeeds less than half the time.
- For every agent, most failures arise from interacting with the apparatus.
- Manipulation skills help weaker agents more than perception and planning do.
- Every experiment is verified to be solvable; the benchmark and evaluation code are released on GitHub.
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The work targets acting to gain knowledge, a setting distinct from manipulation benchmarks that specify a target state and from scientific benchmarks that use symbolic or numerical queries instead of physical experimentation.
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