arXiv:2606. 29898v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Real-world evaluation is the gold standard for robot policies because it tests them against the physical conditions and deployment challenges they are ultimately designed to handle.
By Haoxu Huang, Tongsam Zheng, Yifan Chen, Jiacheng You, Yang Gao
arXiv:2608. 07809v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A world model is only useful for physical AI if it changes what the agent does, and only safe if it declines to do so when it is wrong.
By Yiyao Zhang, Diksha Goel, Hussain Ahmad, Shixun Huang, Jun Shen
arXiv:2607. 03177v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Traditional reinforcement learning (RL) for recovery in autonomous systems lacks causal understanding and generalizes poorly to novel failure scenarios.
By Safia Fatima, Kai Olav Ellefsen, Leon Moonen
arXiv:2608. 13719v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous systems can fail in rare and heterogeneous ways, making real-world failure discovery difficult under limited testing budgets.
By Anjali Parashar, Rachel Luo, Apoorva Sharma, Sushant Veer, Edward Schmerling, Carson Sobolewski, Mingxin Yu, Chuchu Fan, Marco Pavone
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. 01111v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robot policies inevitably encounter failures when deployed in real environments.
By Haoran Hao, Shahram Najam Syed, Jeffrey Ichnowski, Jeff Schneider