Is BEHAVIOR-1K still meaningful?
Status:Still useful Checked against the report, 5 November 2026
Verdict
Yes. The best challenge entry succeeds on only 12.4% of tasks, which leaves much room.
Why still useful: The NeurIPS 2025 challenge winner reached only 12.4% success, so the test stays far from its ceiling.[1][1] Robot Learning Collective on the BEHAVIOR Challenge Secondary[2][2] BEHAVIOR Challenge 2025 leaderboard Primary The chapter rates it Frontier.
What “Still useful” meansKnown problems
What to look at instead
The report names no direct successor.
Where it appears in the report
Chapter 7, Multimodal, voice and embodied
- Figure 1. Tests Beyond Text Fill Up in Months, Too
- Table 1. Each modality has one number that tells its story
- Table 12. Simulation benchmarks for robot manipulation and household tasks, read November 2026 in “Go deeper: Simulation benchmarks”
- Figure 11. Robotics, GUI agents and deepfake detection have the weakest independent checks
Sources
Copied from the chapter source lists. Each number links back to the source in its chapter.
- [1] Robot Learning Collective on the BEHAVIOR Challenge. Snippet only. Secondary robot-learning-collective.github.io Chapter 7, source 74
- [2] BEHAVIOR Challenge 2025 leaderboard. Snippet only, provisional. Primary behavior.stanford.edu Chapter 7, source 75
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