Reality Check: 4 Open-Source Models, 14,400 Real-World Rollouts to Benchmark Robot Policies
YuXiang_IRVL · x · 2026-09-30
A startup has been founded for large-scale real-world manipulation eval. Their project Reality Check runs 10 real-world tasks on a bimanual Franka FR3 Duo, evaluating 4 open-source models across 14,400 rollouts, measuring how data volume, spatial generalization and embodiment data change success rates.
The quoting researcher (YuXiangIRVL) compares it with their own VLA-Replica work — 9 policies, 2,430 rollouts — noting Reality Check scales up the same ideas: reproducible placement, out-of-distribution positions, and training demos.
Related event: Reality Check Launches First Public Real-Robot Manipulation Leaderboard(2 posts)→
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