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RMBench introduces a critical evaluation framework for robotic manipulation policies that explicitly addresses the often-overlooked need for memory capabilities in handling historical observations. By proposing the Mem-0 modular policy and conducting extensive ablation studies across simulation and real-world experiments, this work provides essential empirical insights into how architectural design choices impact long-term task performance. This research directly advances machine learning by bridging the gap between theoretical policy progress and practical requirements for reasoning over time in complex environments.
RMBench: Memory-Dependent Robotic Manipulation Benchmark with Insights into Policy Design
arXiv:2603.01229v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Robotic manipulation policies have made rapid progress in recent years, yet most existing approaches give limited consideration to memory capabilities. Consequently, they struggle to solve tasks that require reasoning over historical observations and maintaining task-relevant information over time, which are common requirements in real-world manipulation scenarios. Although several memory-aware policies have been proposed, systematic evaluation of memory-dependent manipulation remains underexplored, and the relationship between architectural design choices and memory performance is still not well understood. To address this gap, we introduce RMBench, a simulation benchmark comprising 9 manipulation tasks that span multiple levels of memory complexity, enabling systematic evaluation of policy memory capabilities. We further propose Mem-0, a modular manipulation policy with explicit memory components designed to support controlled ablation studies. Through extensive simulation and real-world experiments, we identify memory-related limitations in existing policies and provide empirical insights into how architectural design choices influence memory performance. The website is available at https://rmbench.github.io/.
Abstract:Robotic manipulation policies have made rapid progress in recent years, yet most existing approaches give limited consideration to memory capabilities. Consequently, they struggle to solve tasks that require reasoning over historical observations and maintaining task-relevant information over time, which are common requirements in real-world manipulation scenarios. Although several memory-aware policies have been proposed, systematic evaluation of memory-dependent manipulation remains underexplored, and the relationship between architectural design choices and memory performance is still not well understood. To address this gap, we introduce RMBench, a simulation benchmark comprising 9 manipulation tasks that span multiple levels of memory complexity, enabling systematic evaluation of policy memory capabilities. We further propose Mem-0, a modular manipulation policy with explicit memory components designed to support controlled ablation studies. Through extensive simulation and real-world experiments, we identify memory-related limitations in existing policies and provide empirical insights into how architectural design choices influence memory performance. The website is available at this https URL.
Robotics (cs.RO); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
arXiv:2603.01229 [cs.RO]
(or arXiv:2603.01229v3 [cs.RO] for this version)
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