MotionForge: A Data Generation Pipeline and Large-Scale Benchmark for Long-Horizon Manipulation of Dynamic Objects with Domain Shifts
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Submitted: 2026-09-22
Updated: 2026-09-22
Comments: 9 pages
License: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
The gist: Recent advances in learning-based robot policies have demonstrated promising progress, yet they are predom- inantly evaluated in static or quasi-static environments.
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Abstract
Recent advances in learning-based robot policies have demonstrated promising progress, yet they are predom- inantly evaluated in static or quasi-static environments. In dynamic manipulation, objects and scenes continuously evolve while the robot perceives, reasons, and acts. However, recent dynamic simulation benchmarks largely focus on short-horizon, reactive interactions with simple motion patterns and offer limited support for both systematic evaluation under domain shifts and model-agnostic real-time execution protocols. To bridge these gaps, we introduce MotionForge, the first large- scale simulation benchmark and data-generation pipeline tailored to jointly evaluate domain shifts and long-horizon interaction in dynamic manipulation. MotionForge comprises 40 dynamic interaction tasks spanning 11 distinct motion patterns, with dedicated support for 17 long-horizon tasks. Our benchmark introduces two key novelties: (1) a systematic evaluation protocol for assessing policy robustness under both single-factor (e.g., only backgrounds shift) and joint domain shifts (e.g., simultaneous shifts of objects, backgrounds, lighting, and speed); and (2) a decoupled, latency-aware execution protocol where the environ- ment continuously evolves independently of policy inference time. Extensive evaluations of representative general-purpose robot policies on our benchmark reveal substantial limitations under joint domain shifts. These findings expose a critical gap between current policy capabilities and the requirements of robust long- horizon manipulation of dynamic objects under domain shifts, establishing MotionForge as a comprehensive testbed for future research in embodied AI.
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