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Alexa Arena: A User-Centric Interactive Platform for Embodied AI

Qiaozi Gao, Govind Thattai, Suhaila Shakiah, Shreyas Pansare, Vasu Sharma, Gaurav S. Sukhatme, Hangjie Shi, Bofei Yang, Desheng Zheng, Lucy Hu, Karthika Arumugam, Shui Hu, Matthew Wen, Dinakar Guthy, Cadence Chung, Rohan Khanna, Osman İpek, Leslie D. Ball, Kate Bland, Heather Rocker

Year
2023
Citations
3
Access
Open access

Abstract

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.

Keywords

Dialog boxComputer scienceHuman–computer interactionEmbodied cognitionBenchmark (surveying)RobotVariety (cybernetics)Baseline (sea)Dialog systemArtificial intelligence

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