Paper

RoboColosseum: Evaluating Physical Intelligence at Scale In-The-Wild

A distributed physical eval framework that compares robot policies across sites and embodiments via pairwise zero-shot trials and a fixed-data fine-tune track.

arXiv ↗Nov 2, 2026Code ↗

  • robotics
  • llm
  • benchmarking
  • robot learning
  • vision-language-action models
Comprehensive overview with leaderboards, embodiments, tasks, and evaluation tracks showing core contribution
Comprehensive overview with leaderboards, embodiments, tasks, and evaluation tracks showing core contribution

What it is

A distributed real-world benchmark for evaluating robot foundation policies across sites, tasks, and embodiments with zero-shot and fine-tuning tracks. Instead of single-site fixed benchmarks, it runs blinded pairwise physical trials across distributed robots plus a controlled fine-tune track, separating zero-shot generalization from adaptation and measuring partial progress, not just success.

Key results

  • 5,699 Open Track comparisons collected across 124 sites
  • Active matchmaking reached ~90% ranking agreement in 400-500 evals vs ~1,000 uniform
  • Cross-embodiment ranking agreement is weak: Kendall's W = 0.24

Real-world robot rankings depend strongly on embodiment and adaptation setting, so scalable distributed evaluation is needed to measure generalization reliably.

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