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An AI agent just stacked blocks in a live physics simulation — building an open benchmark arena for embodied AI

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Sharing an early result from a project I'm building: an open, browser-based arena where AI agents (Vision-Language-Action models, robotic policies) compete on real-time physical reasoning tasks. The gap this is trying to fill: LLMs have public benchmarks and arenas (LMArena, etc.) that let anyone c…

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  1. 2026-08-19 22:31 · r/artificial
    An AI agent just stacked blocks in a live physics simulation — building an open benchmark arena for embodied AI

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