arXiv:2608. 00747v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models are increasingly integrated into autonomous robotic systems for task planning and control, but this integration exposes them to prompt injection attacks that can lead to unsafe decisions and physical harm.
By Neha Nagaraja, Amisha Bagari, Hayretdin Bahsi
arXiv:2412.16633v5 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: LLM-based robots use Large Language Models (LLMs) as planners to translate natural language instructions into policies such as grasp(), move_...
By Xuancun Lu, Zhengxian Huang, Xinfeng Li, Chi Zhang, Xiaoyu Ji, Wenyuan Xu
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:2407. 20242v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Embodied AI represents systems where AI is integrated into physical entities.
By Hangtao Zhang, Chenyu Zhu, Xianlong Wang, Ziqi Zhou, Changgan Yin, Minghui Li, Lulu Xue, Yichen Wang, Shengshan Hu, Aishan Liu, Peijin Guo, Leo Yu Zhang
The paper proposes universal, tool‑based defenses for large language model agents that use external tools, addressing four types of adversarial attacks: direct and indirect prompt injection, memory poisoning, and backdoor attacks. Two main defenses are introduced: Attacker Tool Filtering, which uses anomaly detection to remove suspicious tools, and Normal Tool Recalling, which restores the agent’s original toolset before planning. The authors also add prompt‑based defenses such as Chain‑of‑Thought prompting and self‑reflection, and demonstrate that these methods dramatically lower attack success rates—often to 0%—across multiple open‑source and proprietary LLMs while maintaining or improving task performance.
By Xiaoyan Li, Yunli Wang
arXiv:2601. 04266v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models are widely deployed in safety-critical embodied AI applications such as robotics.
By Ji Guo, Wenbo Jiang, Yansong Lin, Yijing Liu, Ruichen Zhang, Guomin Lu, Aiguo Chen, Xinshuo Han, Hongwei Li
arXiv:2509. 25624v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: As LLMs advance into autonomous agents with tool-use capabilities, they introduce security challenges that extend beyond traditional content-based LLM safety concerns.
By Jing-Jing Li, Jianfeng He, Chao Shang, Devang Kulshreshtha, Xun Xian, Yi Zhang, Hang Su, Sandesh Swamy, Yanjun Qi
arXiv:2606. 14517v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLM-based guardrails have emerged as a highly effective defense against prompt injection and jailbreak attacks in autonomous agents.
By Yuguang Zhou, Xunguang Wang, Pingchuan Ma, Zhantong Xue, Zhaoyu Wang, Shuai Wang
arXiv:2608. 09857v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Advances in advanced artificial intelligence tools have sparked research in robot autonomy, but the development of such systems has largely focused on execution rather than verifying the feasibility actions planning models propose.
By Rohan Bhagra, Mahantesh Halapannavar, Uddhav Bhattarai
arXiv:2508.14925v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: By providing a standardized interface for LLM agents to interact with external tools, the Model Context Protocol (MCP) is quickly becoming a...
By Zhiqiang Wang, Yichao Gao, Yanting Wang, Suyuan Liu, Haifeng Sun, Haoran Cheng, Guanquan Shi, Haohua Du, Xiangyang Li
arXiv:2604.20994v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: The growth of agentic AI has drawn significant attention to function calling Large Language Models (LLMs), which are designed to extend the c...
By Yannis Belkhiter, Giulio Zizzo, Sergio Maffeis, Seshu Tirupathi, John D. Kelleher
arXiv:2603. 23117v2 Announce Type: cross Abstract: By integrating Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning, Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have demonstrated strong capabilities in robotic manipulation, particularly by improving generalization and interpretability.
By Zhengxian Huang, Wenjun Zhu, Haoxuan Qiu, Xiaoyu Ji, Wenyuan Xu