RoboColosseum launches a robot evaluation program, offering 10,000 hours of free evaluation.

Hugging Face, BitRobot Network, Singapore’s Centre for Embodied Intelligence and researcher Jiafei Duan launched RoboColosseum, an open robot evaluation program offering more than 10,000 free evaluation hours across over 100 robots and 140-plus real-world scenarios. Available hardware includes Unitree G1, SO-101, YAM and Franka systems, with teams required to apply for reviewed allocations of free time. All evaluation data, including failure cases, will be published openly on Hugging Face. The initiative matters because shared, failure-inclusive benchmarks could become a common yardstick for embodied AI, reducing duplicated testing costs for robotics developers. Next, watch which teams receive allocations and how quickly the public dataset grows.