arXiv:2606. 09499v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: World models have recently seen a rapid growth in both their popularity and capability as more data efficient tools for generating robot training data or simulating real world environments, with many works proposing their integration into the robot learning pipeline.
By Ethan Rathbun, Ahmed Agha, Saaduddin Mahmud, Christopher Amato, Alina Oprea, Eugene Bagdasarian
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.
By Jun-Hui Liu, Kun-Yu Lin, Yi-Lin Wei, Xu-Han Chen, Yinghao Li, Zhuohao Li, Yuan-Ming Li, Qing Zhang, Xiaoyi Fan, Dongmei Jiang, Yan Li, Wei-Shi Zheng
arXiv:2504. 17070v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Robots need task planning methods to achieve goals that require more than one action.
By Mohaiminul Al Nahian, Zainab Altaweel, David Reitano, Sabbir Ahmed, Shiqi Zhang, Adnan Siraj Rakin
arXiv:2608. 05715v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are increasingly deployed as planners in robotic systems, where they translate natural-language commands into executable actions grounded in visual scene understanding.
By S. M . Bhagya P. Samarakoon, M. A. Viraj J. Muthugala, W. K. R. Sachinthana, Mohan Rajesh Elara
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:2601. 14323v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models are increasingly deployed in safety-critical robotic applications, yet their security vulnerabilities remain underexplored.
By Bingxin Xu, Yuzhang Shang, Binghui Wang, Emilio Ferrara
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:2608. 03231v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) policies promise general robotic manipulation, but their robustness against physical-world attacks remains fragile.
By Jinquan Zhang, Dongfu Yin, Run Yang, Yufeng Yan, Zhen Tian, F. Richard Yu
Computer use agents (CUAs) are vision-language models that perceive a screen and act on a real operating system through mouse, keyboard, and terminal, and they are increasingly deployed to automate ev...
arXiv:2608.30207v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Computer use agents (CUAs) are vision-language models that perceive a screen and act on a real operating system through mouse, keyboard, and terminal...
By Chen Xiong, Zhiyuan He, Pin-Yu Chen, Stjepan Picek, Tsung-Yi Ho
arXiv:2606. 28649v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present RIPA, the first systematic multi-channel empirical study of prompt injection attacks delivered through the sensory pipeline of a ROS 2-based LLM-controlled robotic system.
By Nima Dorzhiev