See the geometry. Feel the contact.

Benchmarks and policies for precise, contact-rich robot manipulation.

53 benchmarks

Tsinghua University·2026

A dexterous simulation platform pairs 50 demonstrated tasks with 16 demonstration-free transfer tasks and execution diagnostics.

NVIDIA Isaac Sim / Isaac Lab with PhysX. Optional Newton evaluator currently covers two tasks.66: Core-50 + Transfer-16
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Zhejiang University·2026

A 106-task bimanual dexterous suite uses matched in-/out-of-domain variants to evaluate five capability axes across two embodiments.

MuJoCo106 canonical specifications across five capability axes
RGBDepth

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign·2026

A printable 36-task suite instantiates eight everyday contact skills with tunable physical/simulation mechanisms and evaluates learned policies on six physical tasks.

PyBullet-linked rigid/constraint mechanism suite with custom tactile rendering36 reference tasks; six physical policy-evaluation tasks
RGBTactile

Shanghai Jiao Tong University / Nanjing University / Central South University / BUPT / Beijing Normal University·2026

A Core–Gen protocol groups30 dexterous tasks by functional interaction, with limited target demonstrations, variation-controlled rollouts and tactile ablations.

ManiSkill 3 / SAPIEN / PhysX30 tasks in6 families:24 Core+6 Gen. Standard paper comparison evaluates15 tasks in3 families; six scene layouts are not additional task types.
RGBTactile

Xspark AI / Tsinghua University / MMLab, HKU / HKUST (Guangzhou) / Peking University·2026

Spatially aligned VTLA pretraining uses human touch as visual supervision and as an optional action-expert input; Spark Arena separates vision-only simulation from real tactile control.

Not reported in the inspected paper; Spark Arena-Sim reproduces the Gen1Prototype kinematics/cameras.12 track-specific task settings: 7 simulation + 5 real; Stack Bowls occurs in both tracks.
RGBTactile

Peking University / UC Berkeley / National University of Singapore / ePyBot Intelligence·2026

Eight simulation tasks and five separate physical tasks compare wrist force integration under a common demonstration, controller and evaluation protocol.

NVIDIA Isaac Lab / Isaac Sim8 simulation tasks; 5 separate real-world tasks. These tracks are not 13 independent task families.
RGBForce/Torque

Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences·2026

Hierarchical industrial assembly with seven operation types, scoring that accounts for geometric/material/tolerance complexity, and physical plus MuJoCo implementations.

MuJoCo59 assembly primitives spanning 7 operation types and 3 ordered subassemblies; 15 representative task geometries illustrated
RGBDepthForce/Torque

Shanghai AI Laboratory·2026

Laboratory dexterity benchmark with 14 tool/instrument tasks and controllable dynamic visual phenomena, using hybrid Gaussian-background rendering.

mjlab / MuJoCo Warp with Gaussian-splatting backgrounds14 tasks across 4 robot embodiments; three visual experimental phenomena and six laboratory backgrounds
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Fudan University·2026

Paired simulation and physical evaluation across property perception, fragility, sustained contact and precision insertion. The study compares VLA, world-action and tactile-enabled policies.

NVIDIA Isaac Sim / Isaac Lab with modified TacEx / UIPC11 simulation tasks; 8 paired physical tasks
RGBTactile

Not reported·2026

Controlled seven-hand comparison of action representations under shared scenes, task criteria and balanced demonstration budgets.

MuJoCo (DexJoCo-based benchmark)6 tasks × 7 hands = 42 hand–task pairs
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AIRI / collaborating institutions·2026

Language-conditioned memory benchmark with 90 tasks and explicit cue-hiding design, extending the earlier 32-task RL suite.

ManiSkill / SAPIEN / Gymnasium90 language-conditioned tasks across 10 memory types; 38 Short / 30 Medium / 22 Long
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University of Technology Nuremberg·2026

Controlled real-world comparison of tactile encoder and policy-conditioning choices across contact-rich tasks, with over 2,000 rollouts.

Not applicable — real-world controlled study4 physical contact-rich tasks
RGBTactile