arXiv:2608. 05313v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Service robots operate in household environments shared with humans, pets, and everyday objects, where they are highly susceptible to failures such as software crashes, hardware degradation, or unpredictable interactions.
arXiv:2607. 14543v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) are increasingly used as the reasoning backbone of embodied agents, enabling robots to interpret visual scenes, follow language instructions, and plan multi-step actions.
arXiv:2606. 03312v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While household robots are often evaluated based on task completion, everyday domestic environments involve value-conflicting situations in which robots are expected to choose actions that prioritize other values than task success, such as human autonomy, efficiency, or social appropriateness.
arXiv:2609.36518v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robots must often continue a task after a target moves, the viewpoint shifts, or an obstacle appears, even though their earlier observations and comm...
arXiv:2606. 00090v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Physical AI systems increasingly map multimodal observations, language instructions, and learned world representations into physically consequential actions.
arXiv:2512.01946v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Robust robotic manipulation requires reliable failure detection and recovery. Although recent Vision-Language Models (VLMs) show promise in r...
The paper introduces Hide-and-Seek, a framework for detecting failures in Vision‑Language‑Action (VLA) models during robot execution. It treats failure detection as a coarsely supervised learning problem, using inter‑trajectory and intra‑trajectory contrastive objectives to localize failure‑indicative actions without step‑level annotations. Experiments on LIBERO, VLABench, and a real‑world robotic platform show that Hide‑and‑Seek achieves state‑of‑the‑art multi‑task failure detection performance across several VLA policies.
arXiv:2607. 16921v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Non-prehensile manipulation enables flexible material handling with part carriers, but friction-based support makes high-speed motions failure-prone, while slower operation increases cycle time.
arXiv:2607. 01111v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robot policies inevitably encounter failures when deployed in real environments.
arXiv:2607. 14826v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Safe physical AI for robot actions are required not only likely to succeed but tested to be safe before execution.
In this work, we propose an agentic gamification framework for hazard-informed learning of robot safety policies through synthetic scenarios. We model scenario generation as an adversarial game between two agents: a Red Team that explores the space of potential failures by constructing hazardous situations, and a Blue Team that incrementally refines safety policies to prevent them.
The paper introduces Configured Failure Trapping, a new backdoor attack targeting Vision‑Language‑Action (VLA) models that activates through subtle textual triggers and forces the robot to fail in a specific, controlled manner. It presents a data engine for generating high‑quality target trajectories, an automated evaluation suite, and two benchmarks—Trap‑LIBERO and Trap‑RoboTwin—covering four failure modes. The authors propose TrapVLA, a method that learns trigger‑induced action residuals to steer policies toward the desired failure behavior, demonstrating effectiveness in both simulation and real‑world robotic experiments while maintaining performance on clean data.
arXiv:2606. 05952v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In this work, we propose an agentic gamification framework for hazard-informed learning of robot safety policies through synthetic scenarios.