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| author | Lan, Zhiqian Jiang, Yuxuan Wang, Ruiqi Xie, Xuanbing Zhang, Rongkui Zhu, Yicheng Li, Peihang Yang, Tianshuo Chen, Tianxing Gao, Haoyu Yang, Xiaokang Li, Xuelong Zhang, Hongyuan Mu, Yao Luo, Ping |
| author_facet | Lan, Zhiqian Jiang, Yuxuan Wang, Ruiqi Xie, Xuanbing Zhang, Rongkui Zhu, Yicheng Li, Peihang Yang, Tianshuo Chen, Tianxing Gao, Haoyu Yang, Xiaokang Li, Xuelong Zhang, Hongyuan Mu, Yao Luo, Ping |
| contents | Vision-language-action (VLA) models have shown promise as generalist robotic policies by jointly leveraging visual, linguistic, and proprioceptive modalities to generate action trajectories. While recent benchmarks have advanced VLA research in domestic tasks, professional science-oriented domains remain underexplored. We introduce AutoBio, a simulation framework and benchmark designed to evaluate robotic automation in biology laboratory environments--an application domain that combines structured protocols with demanding precision and multimodal interaction. AutoBio extends existing simulation capabilities through a pipeline for digitizing real-world laboratory instruments, specialized physics plugins for mechanisms ubiquitous in laboratory workflows, and a rendering stack that support dynamic instrument interfaces and transparent materials through physically based rendering. Our benchmark comprises biologically grounded tasks spanning three difficulty levels, enabling standardized evaluation of language-guided robotic manipulation in experimental protocols. We provide infrastructure for demonstration generation and seamless integration with VLA models. Baseline evaluations with two SOTA VLA models reveal significant gaps in precision manipulation, visual reasoning, and instruction following in scientific workflows. By releasing AutoBio, we aim to catalyze research on generalist robotic systems for complex, high-precision, and multimodal professional environments. The simulator and benchmark are publicly available to facilitate reproducible research. |
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| spellingShingle | AutoBio: A Simulation and Benchmark for Robotic Automation in Digital Biology Laboratory Lan, Zhiqian Jiang, Yuxuan Wang, Ruiqi Xie, Xuanbing Zhang, Rongkui Zhu, Yicheng Li, Peihang Yang, Tianshuo Chen, Tianxing Gao, Haoyu Yang, Xiaokang Li, Xuelong Zhang, Hongyuan Mu, Yao Luo, Ping Robotics Vision-language-action (VLA) models have shown promise as generalist robotic policies by jointly leveraging visual, linguistic, and proprioceptive modalities to generate action trajectories. While recent benchmarks have advanced VLA research in domestic tasks, professional science-oriented domains remain underexplored. We introduce AutoBio, a simulation framework and benchmark designed to evaluate robotic automation in biology laboratory environments--an application domain that combines structured protocols with demanding precision and multimodal interaction. AutoBio extends existing simulation capabilities through a pipeline for digitizing real-world laboratory instruments, specialized physics plugins for mechanisms ubiquitous in laboratory workflows, and a rendering stack that support dynamic instrument interfaces and transparent materials through physically based rendering. Our benchmark comprises biologically grounded tasks spanning three difficulty levels, enabling standardized evaluation of language-guided robotic manipulation in experimental protocols. We provide infrastructure for demonstration generation and seamless integration with VLA models. Baseline evaluations with two SOTA VLA models reveal significant gaps in precision manipulation, visual reasoning, and instruction following in scientific workflows. By releasing AutoBio, we aim to catalyze research on generalist robotic systems for complex, high-precision, and multimodal professional environments. The simulator and benchmark are publicly available to facilitate reproducible research. |
| title | AutoBio: A Simulation and Benchmark for Robotic Automation in Digital Biology Laboratory |
| topic | Robotics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.14030 |