AI BENCHMARK PROFILE
The Imitator Game
Evaluates robot imitation across four levels of increasing divergence between demonstration and robot scene, plus an open platform for blind A/B human evaluation.
- Released
- 2026-08-23
- Readiness
- Paper only
- Primary field
- Robotics & Autonomous Systems
Why it matters
Identifies functional substitution as the barrier to intent-level imitation, moving evaluation beyond trajectory replay toward task understanding.
Motivation
Humans imitate at the level of intent: given a demonstration, we infer its goal and carry it out with whatever tools, objects, and layouts are at hand.
Primary resources
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