Alexa Arena: A User-Centric Interactive Platform for Embodied AI
This platform addresses the need for efficient data collection and evaluation in Embodied AI, particularly for human-robot interaction, though it is incremental as it builds on existing simulation tools.
The authors introduced Alexa Arena, a user-centric simulation platform for Embodied AI research, which provides multi-room layouts and interactable objects to create human-robot interaction missions, and they released it publicly to facilitate research in generalizable and assistive embodied agents.
We introduce Alexa Arena, a user-centric simulation platform for Embodied AI (EAI) research. Alexa Arena provides a variety of multi-room layouts and interactable objects, for the creation of human-robot interaction (HRI) missions. With user-friendly graphics and control mechanisms, Alexa Arena supports the development of gamified robotic tasks readily accessible to general human users, thus opening a new venue for high-efficiency HRI data collection and EAI system evaluation. Along with the platform, we introduce a dialog-enabled instruction-following benchmark and provide baseline results for it. We make Alexa Arena publicly available to facilitate research in building generalizable and assistive embodied agents.