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DexArena: A Unified Benchmark for Long-Horizon Dexterous Manipulation.

Abstract

Long-horizon dexterous manipulation remains a fundamental challenge for robot learning, requiring the composition of multiple skills, precise bimanual coordination, generalizable visual understanding, and robust skill transitions. Yet existing manipulation benchmarks largely emphasize isolated skills or support only a limited range of end-effectors, making these capabilities difficult to evaluate systematically. We introduce **DexArena**, a benchmark designed to evaluate learning and generalization in long-horizon bimanual dexterous manipulation. DexArena features **10 long-horizon tasks and 30 stage-level tasks** spanning diverse household and industrial scenarios. Each long-horizon task is composed of explicitly defined stages with physically grounded success conditions, enabling reliable evaluation of both intermediate progress and end-to-end task completion. A unified benchmark interface and verified human-teleoperated demonstrations enable testing different policy learning algorithms, with standardized simulation configurations, scene randomization, trajectory replay, and task-level evaluation. Through extensive baseline experiments, we identify substantial challenges in precise manipulation, generalization to scene variation, and skill composition. DexArena establishes a challenging and reproducible benchmark for developing robot learning methods that move toward generalizable long-horizon dexterous behavior.

open until 14 Dec 2026

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