AXIS: A Growable Community-Driven Data Engine for Scalable Robot Manipulation

AXIS: A Growable Community-Driven Data Engine for Scalable Robot Manipulation

|Authors: Mengfei Zhao, Dihong Huang, Yikai Tang, Peihao Li, Mingxuan Yan, Ruiqi Zhuang, Yanjia Huang, Jie Wang, Hai Zhai, Tony Zhou, Rui Zhang, Zhexi Luo, Yuchen Huang, Jianfei Yang, Jiachen Li

|Venue: arXiv preprint | Year: 2026

|arXiv: 2607.21588v1

Abstract

Learning effective robot manipulation policies requires diverse, high-quality demonstrations, yet existing data pipelines are often difficult to scale because they rely on specialized hardware, centralized operators, or fixed task suites. We present AXIS, a growable community-driven data engine and benchmark for scalable robot learning, which enables browser-based teleoperation for large-scale demonstration collection, automatically generates and validates new manipulation tasks, and transforms community-collected demonstrations into training-ready data through automated success checking, quality filtering, trajectory smoothing, and visual and physics-based augmentation. The AXIS dataset currently contains 207 diverse tasks and 50K+ trajectories. Meanwhile, AXIS organizes data into task snapshots and evaluates policies with a systematic held-out protocol. We compare vision-language-action (VLA) policies under a unified AXIS evaluation suite and analyze scaling behavior across different data volumes. Continual pretraining on AXIS substantially improves the overall success rate of $π_{0.5}$ by 5.8%, outperforms the model pretrained on RoboCasa365 by 37.3%, and exhibits consistent scaling with increasing data volume, with the largest gains observed under layout, sensor-noise, and camera perturbations.

Key Contributions

• Learning effective robot manipulation policies requires diverse, high-quality demonstrations, yet…
• We present AXIS, a growable community-driven data engine and benchmark for scalable robot learnin…
• The AXIS dataset currently contains 207 diverse tasks and 50K+ trajectories
• Meanwhile, AXIS organizes data into task snapshots and evaluates policies with a systematic held-…
• We compare vision-language-action (VLA) policies under a unified AXIS evaluation suite and analyz…

Topics

• manipulation
• vision
• vla
• learning-from-demonstration
• benchmark

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BibTeX

@article{Zhao2026_260721588v1,
  title     = {AXIS: A Growable Community-Driven Data Engine for Scalable Robot Manipulation},
  author    = {Mengfei Zhao and Dihong Huang and Yikai Tang and Peihao Li and Mingxuan Yan and Ruiqi Zhuang and Yanjia Huang and Jie Wang and Hai Zhai and Tony Zhou and Rui Zhang and Zhexi Luo and Yuchen Huang and Jianfei Yang and Jiachen Li},
  year      = {2026},
  eprint    = {2607.21588v1},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  primaryClass  = {cs.RO},
  url       = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.21588v1}
}