arXiv:2606. 03134v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Imitation-learning policies for robot manipulation inherit the quality of the success labels attached to their training episodes, and those labels are usually produced by the robot's own success check.
By Aarav Bedi (University of California, Berkeley)
arXiv:2607. 23532v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Swarms of LLM-assisted autonomous robots are increasingly proposed for cooperative intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) in contested environments.
By Nikolaos Kekatos, Stylianos Basagiannis, Panagiotis Katsaros, Alexios Lekidis, Tom Nianios
The paper introduces TRACE, a Transparent Reasoning Architecture for Credible Execution, which provides an explainable AI-based decision framework for autonomous robots. TRACE structures decision-making into four auditable layers—Semantic Perception, Belief Reasoning, Action Synthesis, and Execution Verification—to ensure every action can be traced back to sensor evidence through documented causal chains. Experimental results on warehouse robot navigation show high evidence traceability (98.6%), temporal continuity (99.0%), and decision reconstructability (98.1%) across 500 simulated decision cycles.
By Cagri Temel
arXiv:2607. 15589v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Communication-limited robots in mission-critical scenarios such as disaster inspection and search-and-rescue must make reliable onboard decisions without access to remote operators or high-capacity reasoning services.
By Rajat Bhattacharjya, Hyeonjong Ju, Sing-Yao Wu, Eli Bozorgzadeh, Nikil Dutt
arXiv:2607. 14890v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous coding agents increasingly execute multi-step software work, but lifecycle states such as reviewed, tested, DONE, and ready-to-merge remain claims unless supported by current evidence.
By Jek Huang, Jeffery Hsia, Jiayi Sun, Freddie Shi, Wei Huang, Ian H. White
arXiv:2606. 08508v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generative robot policies fail unpredictably at deployment: they hesitate at critical moments, drift off-task, or commit to unrecoverable actions.
By Bingjia Huang, Xiangyu Li, Xiang Wang, Liang Mi, Zixu Hao, Weijun Wang, Hao Wu, Kun Li, Yunxin Liu, Ting Cao
arXiv:2607. 29169v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) policies achieve strong performance in robotic manipulation but remain vulnerable to runtime disturbances that break the temporal alignment among visual observations, robot states, and executed actions.
By Wenda Yu, Tianshi Wang, Fengling Li, Xin Li, Jingjing Li, Lei Zhu
Software engineering (SWE) agents resolve repository-level issues through long trajectories that grow increasingly expensive as context accumulates. Failed runs tend to be longer and exhibit redundant exploration or looping, suggesting that some failures may be detectable before completion.
arXiv:2607. 04146v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This work establishes that trigger-word data poisoning of vision language action models is practical, while at the same time the open-source robotics ecosystem holds trust assumptions about community contributions.
By Stefan B\"uhler, Mark Schutera
arXiv:2609.20615v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Robots inspecting an assembly must determine which parts are present and whether they are correctly installed. During egocentric assembly assistance,...
By Di Wen, Kailun Yang, Wenhao Guo, Yitian Shi, Junwei Zheng, Yufan Chen, Ruiping Liu, Jiale Wei, Rania Rayyes, Kunyu Peng
arXiv:2606. 19356v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: When multi-agent LLM systems produce bad answers, not all failures are equal: some answers are grounded in the right material but incomplete, while others are simply ungrounded and should be stopped.
By Anantha Sharma
arXiv:2608. 04289v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon agents increasingly use persistent memory and tools to take actions with external side effects.
By Mayur Akewar, Ravi Ranjan