WorldArena: A Unified Benchmark for Evaluating Perception and Functional Utility of Embodied World Models
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China(清华大学);Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China(上海交通大学);The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China(香港大学);Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA(普林斯顿大学);Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China(中国科学院);University of Science(科学技术大学);Peking University, Beijing, China(北京大学);National University of Singapore, Singapore(新加坡国立大学)
Yu Shang, Zhuohang Li, Yiding Ma, Weikang Su, Xin Jin, Ziyou Wang, Lei Jin, Xin Zhang, Yinzhou Tang, Haisheng Su, Chen Gao, Wei Wu, Xihui Liu, Dhruv Shah, Zhaox… 展开作者
Yu Shang, Zhuohang Li, Yiding Ma, Weikang Su, Xin Jin, Ziyou Wang, Lei Jin, Xin Zhang, Yinzhou Tang, Haisheng Su, Chen Gao, Wei Wu, Xihui Liu, Dhruv Shah, Zhaoxiang Zhang, Zhibo Chen, Jun Zhu, Yonghong Tian, Tat-Seng Chua, Wenwu Zhu, Yong Li
While world models have emerged as a cornerstone of embodied intelligence by enabling agents to reason about environmental dynamics through action-conditioned prediction, their evaluation remains fragmented. Current evaluation of embodied world models has largely focused on perceptual fidelity (e.g., video generation quality), overlooking the functional utility of these models in downstream decision-making tasks. In this work, we introduce WorldArena, a unified benchmark designed to systematically evaluate embodied world models across both perceptual and functional dimensions. WorldArena assesses models through three dimensions: video perception quality, measured with 16 metrics across six sub-dimensions; embodied task functionality, which evaluates world models as data engines, policy evaluators, and action planners integrating with subjective human evaluation. Furthermore, we propose EWMScore, a holistic metric integrating multi-dimensional performance into a single interpretable index. Through extensive experiments on 14 representative models, we reveal a significant perception-functionality gap, showing that high visual quality does not necessarily translate into strong embodied task capability. WorldArena benchmark with the public leaderboard is released at https://world-arena.ai, providing a framework for tracking progress toward truly functional world models in embodied AI.
WorldArena 2.0: Extending Embodied World Model Benchmarking on Modality, Functionality and Platform
Tsinghua University(清华大学);Shanghai Jiao Tong University(上海交通大学);Zhejiang University(浙江大学);Stanford University(斯坦福大学);The University of Hong Kong(香港大学);Princeton University(普林斯顿大学);Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院);University of Science and Technology of China(中国科学技术大学);Peking University(北京大学);National University of Singapore(新加坡国立大学)
Look, Zoom, Understand: The Robotic Eyeball for Embodied Perception
School of Artificial Intelligence, Shanghai Jiao Tong University(上海交通大学人工智能学院);Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院自动化研究所);Dalian University of Technology(大连理工大学)
EmbodiedScan: A Holistic Multi-Modal 3D Perception Suite Towards Embodied AI
The Chinese University of Hong Kong(香港中文大学);Tsinghua University(清华大学);The University of Hong Kong(香港大学);Shanghai Jiao Tong University(上海交通大学);Shanghai AI Laboratory(上海人工智能实验室)
Towards Next-Generation Healthcare: A Survey of Medical Embodied AI for Perception, Decision-Making, and Action
School of Information Science and Engineering, Ocean University of China(中国海洋大学信息科学与工程学院);Innovation School of Artificial Intelligence, Hefei University of Technology(合肥工业大学人工智能创新学院);School of Information Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China(中国科学技术大学信息科学技术学院);School of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Hefei University of Technology(合肥工业大学计算机与信息工程学院);School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen)(哈尔滨工业大学(深圳)计算机科学与技术学院);College of Computer Science and Technology, National University of Defense Technology(国防科技大学计算机科学与技术学院);ReLER Laboratory, CCAI, Zhejiang University(浙江大学计算机辅助设计与图形学国家重点实验室)
Enabling Extensible Embodied Capabilities with Tools
Huazhong University of Science and Technology(华中科技大学);Hebei University of Technology(河北工业大学);Tianjin University(天津大学);Lehigh University(莱特大学);College of AI, Tsinghua University(清华大学人工智能学院)
Embodied Intelligence for Flexible Manufacturing: A Survey
National University of Defense Technology(中国人民解放军国防科技大学);Wuhan University(武汉大学);Shenzhen University(深圳大学);Hunan University(湖南大学);Shenyang Institute of Automation Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院沈阳自动化研究所)
MIPD: A Multi-sensory Interactive Perception Dataset for Embodied Intelligent Driving
College of Information Science and Technology, Beijing University of Chemical Technology(北京化工大学信息科学与技术学院);Institute of Ophthalmology, Beijing Tongren Hospital(北京同仁医院眼科研究所);College of Information Science and Engineering, Yanshan University(燕山大学信息科学与工程学院);College of Artificial Intelligence, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院大学人工智能学院);College of Mechanics and Vehicles, Beijing Institute of Technology(北京理工大学机械与车辆学院);College of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University(清华大学计算机科学与技术学院)
VL2Spike: Spike-driven Distillation from VLMs for Low-Power Visual Perception in Embodied AI
School of EEE, Nanyang Technological University (NTU)(南洋理工大学电气与电子工程学院);Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto(多伦多大学计算机科学系);Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.(超威半导体公司);State Key Laboratory of Extreme Photonics and Instrumentation, Zhejiang University(浙江大学极端光子学与仪器国家重点实验室);Faculty of Information Science and Technology, Hokkaido University(北海道大学信息科学与技术学院)
UAVs Meet Embodied Intelligence: Bridging Human Intents and Flying Dynamics Via Harnessing Physical-Digital AI Agents
Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院自动化研究所);Beihang University(北京航空航天大学);Shanxi Datong University(山西大同大学);Johns Hopkins University(约翰斯·霍普金斯大学);University of Sanya(三亚学院);Wenzhou-Kean University(温州肯恩大学);Macau University of Science and Technology(澳门科技大学);KOKONI 3D, Moxin Technology(魔芯科技KOKONI 3D);University of Science and Technology of China(中国科学技术大学)
VIKI-R: Coordinating Embodied Multi-Agent Cooperation via Reinforcement Learning
Shanghai Jiao Tong University(上海交通大学);Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory(上海人工智能实验室);University of Science and Technology of China(中国科学技术大学);University of Oxford(牛津大学);The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen(香港中文大学(深圳))
Safety in Embodied AI: A Survey of Risks, Attacks, and Defenses
Fudan University(复旦大学);Shanghai Innovation Institute(上海创新研究院);City University of Hong Kong(香港城市大学);Jilin University(吉林大学);Singapore Management University(新加坡管理大学);Deakin University(德肯大学);Tongji University(同济大学);Nanyang Technological University(南洋理工大学);Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院);The University of Melbourne(墨尔本大学);Johns Hopkins University(约翰霍普金斯大学)
Aligning Cyber Space with Physical World: A Comprehensive Survey on Embodied AI
School of Computer Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University(中山大学计算机科学与工程学院);Sun Yat-sen University(中山大学);Guangdong Key Laboratory of Big Data Analysis and Processing(广东大数据分析与处理重点实验室);Peng Cheng Laboratory(鹏城实验室);Institute of Digital Media, Peking University(北京大学数字媒体研究院)
Embodied Skill Bench: Benchmarking How Well Agents with Embodied Skills Perform on Physical Tasks
Shanghai Jiao Tong University(上海交通大学);Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory(上海人工智能实验室);Sun Yat-Sen University(中山大学);Jilin University(吉林大学);Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics(北京航空航天大学)
Towards general embodied intelligence: integrating large language models, knowledge bases, and reasoning capabilities to build the next generation of AI agents
College of Mechanical Engineering, Chongqing University of Technology(重庆理工大学机械工程学院);James Watt School of Engineering, University of Glasgow(格拉斯哥大学詹姆斯·瓦特工程学院);School of Energy and Power, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology(江苏科技大学能源与动力学院);Magnesium Research Center, Kumamoto University(熊本大学镁研究中心);Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Nagoya University(名古屋大学信息与通信工程系);State Key Laboratory of Fluid Power and Mechatronic Systems, Zhejiang University(浙江大学流体动力与机电系统国家重点实验室)
Visual Environment-Interactive Planning for Embodied Complex-Question Answering
School of Artificial Intelligence, Xidian University(西安电子科技大学人工智能学院);Guangzhou Institute of Technology, Xidian University(西安电子科技大学广州研究院);Pazhou Laboratory(琶洲实验室);Peng Cheng Laboratory(鹏城实验室)
MP5: A Multi-modal Open-ended Embodied System in Minecraft via Active Perception
Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory(上海人工智能实验室);The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen(香港中文大学(深圳));School of Software, Beihang University(北京航空航天大学软件学院);Tsinghua University(清华大学);The University of Sydney(悉尼大学)
EPIC-Bench: A Perception-Centric Benchmark for Fine-Grained Embodied Visual Grounding in Vision-Language Models
X-Humanoid;Fudan University(复旦大学);University of Science and Technology of China(中国科学技术大学);University of Manchester(曼彻斯特大学);Monash University(墨尔本大学);Celonis AI;University of New South Wales(新南威尔士大学)