Embodied AI, including vision-language-action and world-action models, must operate reliably in the physical world. Yet methods that perform well in simulation can degrade substantially on real robots, especially in long-horizon deformable-object manipulation, where policies must track changing states and execute reliable multi-stage bimanual interactions.
ORIGINAL PAPER
FolDeX: A Physical-World Benchmark for Long-Horizon Robotic Manipulation of Deformable Objects
WHAT WE KNOW
Existing real-robot benchmarks mainly focus on short-horizon rigid-object tasks and offer limited coverage of long-horizon deformable manipulation. We introduce FolDeX, a physical-world benchmark built entirely from real-robot data, with garment folding as its primary task. Since real-robot data collection is costly, FolDeX studies how heterogeneous physical experience can be reused efficiently.
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EVIDENCE
What the evidence supports so far
Research signals
VLA
manipulation
sim-to-real
What remains unverified
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