Saraiki (سرائیکی) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily in Pakistan, particularly across southern Punjab and neighboring regions. It has a rich linguistic, literary, and cultural heritage, with its own vocabulary, grammatical structures, and regional varieties.

Despite its significant speaker community, Saraiki remains a low-resource language in Natural Language Processing (NLP), and robot-learning resources in Saraiki have not existed until now.

About This Dataset

Saraiki DROID is built from DROID (lerobot/droid_1.0.1), a large real-world dataset of a Franka Panda robot arm doing everyday manipulation tasks in many different scenes.

Every episode keeps its original videos, robot states and actions unchanged. The language instruction is in Saraiki: each DROID episode has up to three English wordings of its task, and all three are translated into Saraiki.

It is designed to support the training and evaluation of robot policies that follow Saraiki instructions, and research on multilingual and low-resource language grounding in robotics.

Example

English	Saraiki
Put the blue block in the green bowl	نیلے بلاک کوں ساوی پیالی وچ رکھو
Close the drawer	دراز کوں بند کرو
Move the green towel to the right	ساوے تولیے کوں سڄے پاسے کرو
Turn on the left light switch	کھٻے پاسے آلا بتی دا بٹݨ ٻالو
Open the right cabinet door	الماری دا سڄا ٻوہا کھولو

Intended Uses

This dataset can support:

Training vision-language-action (VLA) models with Saraiki instructions
Bilingual Saraiki–English robot policies
Evaluating language grounding: does a policy follow the Saraiki command?
Multilingual and low-resource language robotics research
Cross-lingual instruction following
Saraiki language technology
Academic and educational projects

Why This Dataset Matters

Robot foundation models are trained almost entirely with English instructions, so speakers of languages like Saraiki cannot instruct them in their own language. Real-world robot data paired with Saraiki instructions makes it possible to train and measure robot policies that understand Saraiki.

Usage

from lerobot.datasets.lerobot_dataset import LeRobotDataset

ds = LeRobotDataset("themohal/saraiki-droid")
item = ds[0]
print(item["task"])          # Saraiki instruction
print(item["observation.images.exterior_1_left"].shape)

Access Requirements

Access to this dataset is gated. Users are required to provide information about their intended use and agree to the applicable usage conditions before accessing the dataset.

By requesting access, users agree not to use the dataset to conduct experiments that cause harm to human subjects, and to cite this dataset and the original DROID dataset in any work that uses it.

Citation

If you use this dataset in research, publications, models, or publicly released projects, please cite and acknowledge this dataset and the original DROID dataset:

@misc{raza2026saraikidroid,
  title        = {Saraiki DROID},
  author       = {Raza, Muhammad Farjad Ali},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Hugging Face},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/themohal/saraiki-droid}}
}

@inproceedings{khazatsky2024droid,
  title     = {DROID: A Large-Scale In-The-Wild Robot Manipulation Dataset},
  author    = {Khazatsky, Alexander and Pertsch, Karl and Nair, Suraj and others},
  booktitle = {Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS)},
  year      = {2024}
}

Disclaimer

This dataset is provided for research and educational purposes. The robot videos, states and actions come from the DROID dataset and remain subject to its license. Users are responsible for ensuring that their use of the dataset complies with applicable laws, ethical requirements, and the dataset's license and access conditions.

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