# Is Poke-Aurora SOTA?

Pending benchmarks. Announced Oct 30, 2026; no independent results yet.

As of Nov 3, 2026, Poke-Aurora is pending benchmarks on isitsota: announced Oct 30, 2026, with no independent results on the boards we track yet.

PokeBot's first world-action model for robot manipulation: it takes a wrist-camera image, the robot's state and a language instruction and returns chunks of actions. PokeBot serves it through RoboAPI at api.pokebot.com/v1 as a free, non-commercial technical preview open to everyone. The lab page is dated October 30, 2026. No technical report or weights yet.

Canonical: https://isitsota.com/m/poke-aurora
Last updated: 2026-10-31
Tracking since: 2026-10-31

## Announced facts

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Lab | PokeBot |
| Announced | Oct 30, 2026 |
| API | Live |
| Open weights | Closed · Not released |
| Access | RoboAPI at api.pokebot.com/v1 (OpenAI SDK compatible; sessions plus chat/completions). Free technical preview for non-commercial use; not offered to for-profit third parties. The docs say to pick the model id from /models |
| Inputs and outputs | Wrist-camera image, an 8-value robot state and an instruction in; action chunks out. PokeBot says English instructions work better |
| Method | Modulated Residual Coupling; UMI-style post-training with a wrist fisheye camera and end-effector pose control. Technical report not yet published |
| Robot setups shown | UR7e/UR5e and Franka FR3/Panda with Robotiq 2F-85 grippers, YAM Standard with YAM Gripper, and a floating-base Tianji with YAM Gripper |
| Supported hardware (docs) | UR5 CB3, UR5e, UR7e or Franka arms; Insta360 Ace Pro 2 or DJI Osmo Action 6 wrist cameras |

Tags marked unsure are not stated on the lab's own pages.

## What would let us call it

Verdicts use only independent boards we already track. Two consecutive snapshots are required before any crown.

- [x] Publicly announced with a source
- [x] Usable by the public (API or weights)
- [ ] Listed on an independent board we track
- [ ] Enough results for a rank in a category
- [ ] Holds across two snapshots (crowns only)

## What the lab claims

Self-reported. Shown for context; not used in any verdict.

- Lab claim: on PokeBot's own evaluation (about 1,000 object instances and about 10,000 instructions), 86.0% on Transfer & Organization, vs 71.3% for a model PokeBot calls Astra, 30.9% for π0.5 and 26.9% for MolmoAct2.
- Lab claim: 54.1% on Pose & Shape Alignment (vs 36.3%, 14.8% and 7.9%) and 87.7% on Environment Interaction (vs 67.9%, 32.9% and 23.6%) against the same three baselines.

## Sources

- LAB: [Poke-Aurora (PokeBot)](https://pokebot.com/ai) (2026-10-30)
- LAB: [PokeBot RoboAPI developer docs](https://developers.pokebot.com/docs) (2026-10-30)

Tracking continues until an independent board lists it.

## Related

- Lab: [PokeBot](https://isitsota.com/labs/pokebot.md)
- All pending releases: https://isitsota.com/releases.md
- JSON: https://api.isitsota.com/v1/models/poke-aurora