Robot policies falter as manipulation tasks stretch across more subgoals

LADDER isolates task horizon and shows that orchestration helps, but physical execution remains the dominant bottleneck.

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Petko Petkov · Giuliano Albanese · Nikolay Nikolov · Luc Van Gool · Jonathan Tremblay · Danda Pani Paudel

INSAIT, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” · NVIDIA

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Petkov et al.

LADDER contains 145 tasks across SimplerEnv-Long, RobotArena-∞-Long and RoboLab-Long.

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From INSAIT, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” and NVIDIA

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Robot manipulation policies succeed on single subgoals at 85.4% but collapse on multi-subgoal tasks; tool-selection orchestration improves success but physical execution errors remain the bottleneck.

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