Embodied Playground: A Long-Horizon Agentic Robotics Benchmark for Physical, Strategic, and Spatial Reasoning - 2026-10-19 - Research Publication - Embodied Playground tests long-horizon robotic reasoning across 410 simulated task environments. Its EP-100 subset contains 100 tasks in five suites and 16 task types, with separate goal, rule-compliance and… - source: arxiv.org
Beyond the End-Effector: Learning Whole-Arm Contact Manipulation from Human Demonstrations - 2026-10-13 - Research Publication - WACL transfers human demonstrations into whole-arm contact manipulation, including tasks with constrained end-effector objectives. Physical evaluations use UFACTORY xArm 7 and zero-shot transfer to Franka Research 3. - source: arxiv.org
FINGR: Learning Dexterous Hand Control for Real-World Rubik’s Cube Solving - 2026-09-27 - Research Publication - UC San Diego’s FINGR learns contact-rich finger control from demonstrations using finger-relative geometry and future-interaction prediction. Physical evaluation uses a Sharpa Wave hand on an xArm7, with coded-marker cube… - source: arxiv.org