# MolmoAct 2 ranks second behind GPT-6 Astra in RoboColosseum robot tests

> Original title: MolmoAct 2 placed second, behind GPT-6 Astra, in RoboColosseum’s real-world tests on a Franka robot arm without extra training for those ...

- Source: Ai2
- Published: 2026-11-04T15:50:36.000Z
- Bad Influence: https://badinfluence.news/items/lty42hixnofnt7dk15i3uvv7g
- Original: https://x.com/allen_ai/status/2118008015093968966

## Summary

Ai2's MolmoAct 2 placed second, behind GPT-6 Astra, in RoboColosseum's real-world tests on a Franka robot arm. The tasks were run without extra training for them. RoboColosseum is an open robot evaluation initiative from Hugging Face, BitRobotNetwork, and EAIC.

## Post

MolmoAct 2 placed second, behind GPT-6 Astra, in RoboColosseum’s real-world tests on a Franka robot arm without extra training for those tasks. Thanks to @RoboColosseum for putting robot models to the test!

## Quoted post @RoboColosseum

> Introducing RoboColosseum
> 
> An open robot eval initiative by @huggingface @BitRobotNetwork @eaic_sg @DJiafei
> 
> Access:
> - 100+ robots (@UnitreeRobotics G1s, @LeRobotHF SO-101s, YAMs, Franka and more)
> - 140+ in-the-wild scenes
> - Open rollout data
> - 10,000 FREE eval hrs
> 
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https://x.com/RoboColosseum/status/2117982605274710483