What’s New#

The upcoming release of Isaac Lab-Arena v0.4 adds three new capabilities to the evaluation framework. Try out the early versions on the main branch!

Agentic Authoring
Ten reset layouts of the Arena agent-authored peninsula kitchen environment

Use coding agents to author evaluation environments with Arena’s placement relations and composite tasks.

Agentic Evaluation Authoring
Newton-Based Workflows

Evaluate policies on insertion, contact-rich assembly, and deformable-object tasks using the Newton physics backend and Arena’s evaluation tools.

Newton-Based Evaluation Workflows
Multimodal VLM as a Policy

Use a multimodal vision-language model such as Astra as a robot policy, and compare action strategies using Arena’s evaluation tools.

Multimodal VLM as a Policy