Benchmark Almanac

ArmnetBench

π0.5 47.6% leads since July 2026
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12 tabletop tasks on low-cost SO-101 arms. Each policy trained on the same 50 demos per task. 30 human-scored rollouts.

One team trains and runs every policy under one budget. Best pi0.5 47.6% strict success. No policy solves cable_clip. One-off v0.1 snapshot. Initial states not matched.

Made by
Armnet
Released
July 2026
Kind
Real robots
Level
Everyday
Scored
Graded by people
Answers
Agent task
Tasks
All public
Last model added
May 2026
Scores refreshed
November 12th, 2026

In the authors’ words

Real-world evaluation is a bottleneck in developing generalist robot manipulation policies. Each rollout requires physical hardware and an operator to set up, reset, and score it. We introduce ArmnetBench v0.1, a benchmark run on a fleet of low-cost SO-101 cells under light on-site supervision. v0.1 validates this arm farm end to end and compares 7 policies across 12 tasks with both single-arm and bimanual configurations. Each policy is trained or fine-tuned on 50 demonstrations per task; the benchmark contains 2,518 policy rollouts and 600 reference demonstrations. All 3,118 episodes carry a three-way label (successful, suboptimal, or failure). Policy rollouts are human-scored, while demonstrations are successful by construction. Beyond evaluation, its quality-labelled trajectories support downstream learning, from reward and predictive world models to policies trained on mixed-quality data. The leaderboard is an initial comparison under this shared budget. We release the 3,118 core episodes in LeRobot v3.0 and RoboMeter formats.

Abstract of ArmnetBench v0.1: Parallel Real-World Evaluation of Manipulation Policies on a Low-Cost Arm Farm (arXiv:2607.24481, CC0)
7
Entries on its own leaderboard, 4 models we track

π0.5 leads with 47.6% among models released by May 2026

Best score per entry from the benchmark's own leaderboard, read on November 12th, 2026. Where a model ran with several settings or harnesses, we keep its best. Names in gray aren't in our model list: fine-tunes, agent systems, products and older models. They don't count toward leaders.

The newest model with a score here came out in May 2026, and nobody has tested a newer one. Among the 20 highest-ranked models on the capability index, these have no score yet:

  1. 1 π0.5 50 demonstrations 47.6%
  2. 2 π0 50 demonstrations 35.1%
  3. 3 GR00T N1.7 50 demonstrations 29.4%
  4. 4 Diffusion Policy 50 demonstrations 26.7%
  5. 5 ACT 50 demonstrations 19.2%
  6. 6 MolmoAct 2 50 demonstrations 18.9%
  7. 7 SmolVLA 50 demonstrations 15%

Source: Official ArmnetBench leaderboard

#EntryScoreSettingDateSource
1 π0.5 47.6% 50 demonstrations Apr 2025 Official leaderboard
2 π0 35.1% 50 demonstrations Oct 2024 Official leaderboard
3 GR00T N1.7 29.4% 50 demonstrations Apr 2026 Official leaderboard
4 Diffusion Policy 26.7% 50 demonstrations Official leaderboard
5 ACT 19.2% 50 demonstrations Official leaderboard
6 MolmoAct 2 18.9% 50 demonstrations May 2026 Official leaderboard
7 SmolVLA 15% 50 demonstrations Official leaderboard

Number one over time

Lab claims count from the day the card came out, independent runs from the model’s release.

Physical Intelligence
Own leaderboard Not tested since Jul 2026
π0.5 47.6%

Source: Official ArmnetBench leaderboard

Scores over time

All the scores we have, one dot each, so a model tested at several settings appears more than once.

On the benchmark’s own leaderboard Best so far
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% 2025 2026 Near the ceiling (85%) π0.5 π0 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% 2025 2026 Near the ceiling (85%) π0.5 π0

Source: Official ArmnetBench leaderboard

No lab model card reports it yet

We read the headline results of 522 launch posts from 52 labs, and none of them list this benchmark.

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