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RoboSPA: Can VLA Models Go Beyond Simple Scenes and Short-Horizon Tasks?

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TL;DR - RoboSPA is a large-scale benchmark for evaluating spatial reasoning and long-horizon procedural planning in Vision-Language-Action models. It reveals persistent weaknesses in complex spatial understanding, precise execution, and memory-intensive planning.

  • Covers 10 task categories and 56 base tasks, expanded across five difficulty levels into 280 variants.
  • Includes 527K manipulation trajectories spanning multiple robot embodiments and diverse scenes.
  • Adds diagnostic metrics beyond binary task-success rates to identify specific reasoning and execution failures.
  • Evaluations of representative VLA models show substantial difficulty as spatial ambiguity and procedural complexity increase.

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RoboSPA: Can VLA Models Go Beyond Simple Scenes and Short-Horizon Tasks?

arXiv cs.RO Zhenxuan Fan, Bo Zhang, Yutong Lin, Yuqian Yuan, Juekai Lin, Liang Liang, Zhuoyi Huang, Wenqiao Zhang, Juncheng Li, Siliang Tang, Jun Xiao, Yueting Zhuang 2026-09-04 arXiv:2609.05324
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TL;DR - RoboSPA is a large-scale benchmark for evaluating spatial reasoning and long-horizon procedural planning in Vision-Language-Action models. It reveals persistent weaknesses in complex spatial understanding, precise execution, and memory-intensive planning.

  • Covers 10 task categories and 56 base tasks, expanded across five difficulty levels into 280 variants.
  • Includes 527K manipulation trajectories spanning multiple robot embodiments and diverse scenes.
  • Adds diagnostic metrics beyond binary task-success rates to identify specific reasoning and execution failures.
  • Evaluations of representative VLA models show substantial difficulty as spatial ambiguity and procedural complexity increase.
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