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This study advances Physical AI by establishing empirical continuity between simulation benchmarks and real-world robot execution, effectively quantifying the sim-to-real gap through shared trace identities. By unifying evaluation across navigation, manipulation, and whole-body control under standardized metrics, it provides a critical framework for assessing deployment risk in embodied systems beyond just foundation models.
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DeepInsight II: One Trace from Benchmark to Robot

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arXiv:2608.16556v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Across a Physical AI stack, evaluation maturity is inversely aligned with deployment risk: foundation models enjoy mature, standardized harnesses, while the embodied layers on which deployment actually turns remain fragmented across benchmark-specific simulators, embodiments, and interfaces. The first DeepInsight report (v1) unified evaluation across this stack behind three abstractions---task, resource, and result---but its quantitative evidence centered on the foundation-model layer; navigation and manipulation (System 1) and whole-body control (System 0) remained simulation case studies, and physical execution was outside its empirical scope. DeepInsight II keeps that substrate fixed and quantifies the embodied half. First, it reproduces released-checkpoint references across two navigation and four manipulation benchmarks under their native protocols. Second, MotionBench places four released whole-body controllers under one workload and metric contract, then carries a qualified within-family cohort from parallel simulation to matched real-robot trials in which simulated and physical rollouts share a parent trace identity while retaining execution-domain-specific records, making the sim-to-real gap a native reduction rather than a reconciliation across toolchains. Third, a composed System 2--1--0 study extends trace localization into five evidence-grounded handoff labels, each mapped to a concrete repair action, with a measured repairability criterion and physical episodes testing the same attribution under hardware-observable state. The contribution is therefore not a new evaluation architecture, but empirical continuity from benchmark execution to matched robot evidence and repair-oriented diagnosis.

Abstract:Across a Physical AI stack, evaluation maturity is inversely aligned with deployment risk: foundation models enjoy mature, standardized harnesses, while the embodied layers on which deployment actually turns remain fragmented across benchmark-specific simulators, embodiments, and interfaces. The first DeepInsight report (v1) unified evaluation across this stack behind three abstractions---task, resource, and result---but its quantitative evidence centered on the foundation-model layer; navigation and manipulation (System 1) and whole-body control (System 0) remained simulation case studies, and physical execution was outside its empirical scope. DeepInsight II keeps that substrate fixed and quantifies the embodied half. First, it reproduces released-checkpoint references across two navigation and four manipulation benchmarks under their native protocols. Second, MotionBench places four released whole-body controllers under one workload and metric contract, then carries a qualified within-family cohort from parallel simulation to matched real-robot trials in which simulated and physical rollouts share a parent trace identity while retaining execution-domain-specific records, making the sim-to-real gap a native reduction rather than a reconciliation across toolchains. Third, a composed System 2--1--0 study extends trace localization into five evidence-grounded handoff labels, each mapped to a concrete repair action, with a measured repairability criterion and physical episodes testing the same attribution under hardware-observable state. The contribution is therefore not a new evaluation architecture, but empirical continuity from benchmark execution to matched robot evidence and repair-oriented diagnosis.

Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)

arXiv:2608.16556 [cs.AI]

(or arXiv:2608.16556v1 [cs.AI] for this version)

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