RoboMIND: Benchmark on Multi-embodiment Intelligence Normative Data for Robot Manipulation

arXiv: 2412.13877 | Venue: RSS 2025

Authors: Kun Wu et al. (37 co-authors, multiple institutions)

Abstract

RoboMIND is the largest multi-embodiment teleoperation dataset collected on a unified platform. It contains 107,000 demonstration trajectories across 479 diverse tasks involving 96 object classes, collected from four robotic platforms via human teleoperation.

Dataset Scale

  • Trajectories: 107,000
  • Tasks: 479
  • Object classes: 96
  • Embodiments: 4 platforms
  • Failure demos: 5,000 labeled failure trajectories with documented causes

Hardware Platforms

PlatformTrajectories
Franka Emika Panda (single-arm)52,926
Tien Kung humanoid19,152
AgileX Cobot Magic V2.0 (dual-arm)10,629
UR-5e (single-arm)25,170

Teleoperation Method

Human teleoperation via a unified data collection platform with standardized protocols across embodiments.

Key Contributions

  1. Multi-embodiment on unified platform: First large-scale dataset providing cross-embodiment data under consistent collection protocols (unlike Open-X which aggregates heterogeneous data from different labs)
  2. Failure demonstrations: 5,000 labeled failure trajectories with cause annotations — unique among public datasets, enables learning from mistakes
  3. Digital twin: Paired simulation environment in Isaac Sim for sim-to-real research
  4. Scale: 479 tasks is ~5x more than DROID (86 tasks)

Comparison with DROID

RoboMIND focuses on task diversity (479 tasks) and multi-embodiment coverage at the cost of scene diversity (fewer unique environments). DROID prioritizes environmental diversity (564 scenes) with a single robot platform. RoboMIND adds the unique failure demo corpus.