RoboMME: Benchmarking and Understanding Memory for Robotic Generalist Policies

Dai, Hongze Fu, Jayjun Lee, Yuejiang Liu, Haoran Zhang, Jianing Yang, Chelsea Finn, Nima Fazeli, Joyce Chai

RoboMME: Benchmarking and Understanding Memory for Robotic Generalist Policies: 32 upvotes on Hugging Face Daily Papers, #7 of 31 papers on 2026-03-09. Day-by-day upvote history.

Memory is critical for long-horizon and history-dependent robotic manipulation. Such tasks often involve counting repeated actions or manipulating objects that become temporarily occluded. Recent vision-language-action (VLA) models have begun to incorporate memory mechanisms; however, their evaluations remain confined to narrow, non-standardized settings. This limits their systematic understanding, comparison, and progress measurement. To address these challenges, we introduce RoboMME: a large-scale standardized benchmark for evaluating and advancing VLA models in long-horizon, history-dependent scenarios. Our benchmark comprises 16 manipulation tasks constructed under a carefully designed taxonomy that evaluates temporal, spatial, object, and procedural memory. We further develop a suite of 14 memory-augmented VLA variants built on the π0.5 backbone to systematically explore different memory representations across multiple integration strategies. Experimental results show that the effectiveness of memory representations is highly task-dependent, with each design offering distinct advantages and limitations across different tasks. Videos and code can be found at our website https://robomme.github.io.

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