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The Best Robot Explored Too Little

RoboQuest's strongest multimodal agent completed only 23% of tasks requiring search, inspection or interactive testing.

Published Updated Story ID: mp-2026-10-08-016
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Summary

RoboQuest's strongest multimodal agent completed only 23% of tasks requiring search, inspection or interactive testing.

The benchmark separates hidden-information discovery from basic execution. Agents could often perform the component actions when the missing fact was supplied, yet commonly committed before gathering required evidence and rarely repaired disturbances caused during exploration. A policy fine-tuned on full episodes almost never succeeded.

Why it matters

RoboQuest's strongest multimodal agent completed only 23% of tasks requiring search, inspection or interactive testing.

Limits and context

No additional limitation was separately recorded.

Key claims

  1. RoboQuest's strongest multimodal agent completed only 23% of tasks requiring search, inspection or interactive testing.

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Sources

  1. arXiv preprint 2610.10388arXiv · primary research

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