The promise of artificial intelligence (AI) agents transforming industrial operations is immense, yet the journey from theoretical breakthroughs to practical, real-world deployment remains fraught with significant challenges. While AI agents have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in controlled environments and game simulations, their application in complex, high-stakes industrial settings demands a level of robustness, reliability, and safety that traditional benchmarks often fail to capture. This is precisely the chasm that AssetOpsBench industrial AI agents aims to bridge, offering a groundbreaking benchmark suite designed to evaluate AI agents in scenarios that closely mirror the intricacies of industrial asset management. Developed by IBM Research and made accessible on Hugging Face, AssetOpsBench represents a pivotal step forward in making industrial AI agents truly viable. It moves beyond abstract metrics, focusing instead on operational efficiency, cost implications, and t...