WorldArena 2.0 Brings World Models to Real Robots
机器之心 · wechat · 2026-07-15
WorldArena 2.0 has been released alongside the IROS 2026 challenge, aiming to shift world model evaluation from simply assessing visual quality to testing real-world applicability.
Core Upgrades
- Track1: Evaluates video quality for complex OOD tasks, continuing to assess physical consistency, controllability, and 3D accuracy.
- Track2: Connects world models to an online reinforcement learning closed-loop to test their viability as policy training environments.
- Track3: Deploys on real robot platforms to evaluate WAM task planning and action execution under multi-embodiment, multi-modal, and distributed conditions.
Existing Experimental Results
- In tactile-intensive tasks, tactile feedback helps, but high prediction metrics do not guarantee long-horizon manipulation success.
- For example, on the InsertHDMI task, some world models achieve high prediction quality and success rates. However, for the LiftBottle task requiring continuous force control, all tested world models had a 0% success rate, whereas the ACT baseline reached 80%.
Event Details
- Opens on July 10
- Submission deadline on August 30
- Results announced on September 15
- Awards ceremony on September 27
- Paper, code, data, and evaluation framework are already open source
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