Benchmark manipulation allegations on RoboArena

RoboArena’s maintainers say they found evidence of benchmark manipulation and changed procedures to preserve fair robotics evaluations

Over the last few weeks we have seen some evidence of benchmark manipulation on RoboArena, in part flagged by members of the robotics community. We take this very seriously and have taken steps to protect the integrity of the benchmark and
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