Benchmarking Robots for Everyday Environments: From Lab Experiments to Real-World Operations

arXiv:2609.26490 · cs.RO, cs.HC · Submitted 2026-09-22 · Read on arXiv

cs.RO, cs.HC

Submitted: 2026-09-22

Updated: 2026-09-22

Terminology

• Benchmarking — 137× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Human-Robot Interaction — 26× in this paper
• Benchmark — 14× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• International Electrotechnical Commission — 13× in this paper
• Adaptation — 8× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Core — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verification — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Actor — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Adam — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Conference on Automation Science and Engineering — 1× in this paper
• Cooperation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Elias — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• European Space Agency — 1× in this paper
• Evaluation Dimensions — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Foundation Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Foundation Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Generalizability — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Iterative Refinement — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Local Optimization — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Minimum Viable Product — 1× in this paper
• Personalization — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Self-Descriptive Capability and Existence Acceptance — 1× in this paper

Sources

• Egocentric Robots in a Human-Centric World? Exploring Group-Robot-Interaction in Public Spaces
• Assessing Pedestrian Behavior Around Autonomous Cleaning Robots in Public Spaces: Findings from a Field Observation

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