Resources
A curated collection of research papers, tools, datasets, and references for exploring embodied artificial intelligence and physical intelligence systems.
Benchmarks
BEHAVIOR-1K: First simulation benchmark grounded in real human needs
HumanoidBench: Simulated Humanoid Benchmark for Whole-Body Locomotion and Manipulation
Humanoid-Gym: Reinforcement Learning for Humanoid Robot with Zero-Shot Sim2Real Transfer
ManiSkill3 Benchmark: GPU-parallelized benchmark; 30,000+ FPS in simulation
RoboCasa: Large-Scale Simulation of Everyday Tasks for Generalist Robots
LIBERO: Lifelong Learning Benchmark for Robot Manipulation
State of VLA Research at ICLR 2026: 164 VLA submissions vs. 9 the prior year
Research Papers
September 2025
Gemini Robotics 1.5 Tech ReportJune 2025
RoboCasa365: A Large-Scale Simulation Framework for Training and Benchmarking Generalist RobotsMay 2025
ManiSkill3: GPU Parallelized Robotics Simulation and Rendering for Generalizable Embodied AIApril 2025
Embodied-Reasoner: Synergizing Visual Search, Reasoning, and Action for Embodied Interactive TasksMarch 2025
ELLMER: Embodied LLM-Enabled RobotFebruary 2025
Hi Robot: Open-Ended Instruction Following with Hierarchical Vision-Language-Action ModelsSeptember 2024
OpenVLA: An Open-Source Vision-Language-Action ModelTools, Data, and Software
AGIBOT WORLD 2026 Dataset: Large-scale open-sourced embodied AI dataset
Awesome Embodied VLA/VA/VLN
Awesome Physical AI: Curated list of VLA models, world models, and robotic foundation models
DexForce: Extracting Force-informed Actions for Dextrous Manipulation
DexWild: Dexterous Human Interactions for In-the-Wild Robot Policies
DreamDojo: A Generalist Robot World Model from Large-Scale Human Videos (NVIDIA GEAR)
Genesis: A Generative and Universal Physics Engine for Robotics and Beyond
ManiSkill3: GPU-parallelized robotics simulation; 10-1000x faster than CPU platforms
Meta Large-scale datasets
MeTRAbs Absolute 3D Human Pose Estimator
Mjlab: A lightweight, modular abstractions for RL robotics research and sim-to-real deployment.
MuJoCo: Advanced physics simulation
NVIDIA Isaac GR00T N1: Foundation model for generalized humanoid robot reasoning and skills.
NVIDIA Isaac GR00T N1: Open Physical AI Dataset
NVIDIA Isaac Lab: a unified and modular framework for robot learning
Open X-Embodiment Dataset Overview
Open X-Embodiment: Robotic Learning Datasets and RT-X Models
OpenVLA: An Open-Source Vision-Language-Action Model
RLBench: The Robot Learning Benchmark & Learning Environment
RoboCasa365: 365 everyday tasks, 2,500 kitchen scenes, 600+ hours of human demo data
SmolVLM browser real-time camera interaction application
SoftMimic: Learning Compliant Whole-body Control from Examples