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  1. Continuous Online Fault Detection for Mobile Robots via Adaptive Edge Models

    Sep 24, 2026Jordan Levy, Nicolas Verstaevel, Vincent Talon +1Robot Failure DetectionOnline Anomaly Detection

    IRIT, Université Toulouse Capitole, Toulouse, France · TwinswHeel, Soben, France

  2. CoreSense: Traceable Failure Recall and Conflict-Aware Belief Gating for Auditable Robot Decisions

    Sep 17, 2026Zoe LiRobot Failure DetectionRobot Safety

    Independent Researcher, Seattle, WA, USA

  3. RAFAIL: Relationship-Aware Failure Detection for Robotic Manipulation

    Sep 16, 2026Loris Schneider, Edgar Welte, Rania RayyesRobot Failure DetectionFault Detection

    Institute for Material Handling and Logistics (IFL), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, 76131, Germany.

  4. Indicators of resilience for autonomous control systems

    Sep 16, 2026Jasper van Beers, Da-Hwi Kim, Prashant Solanki +1Robot Failure Detection

    Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Delft University of Technology, 2629 HS Delft, The Netherlands

  5. FARM: Reading Failure Signals from the Internal Predictive States of a Frozen Robotic World Model

    Sep 11, 2026Haoran Pei, Mingrui Luo, Senbao Wang +4Robot Failure DetectionRobotics

    Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China · Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China

  6. Real-time Puncture Detection and Recovery for Pneumatic Soft Actuators

    Sep 8, 2026Tejonidhi R. Deshpande, Tingyu Cheng, Josiah HesterRobot Failure DetectionRobot Failure Recovery

    School of Interactive Computing, College of Computing Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA,USA · Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Notre Dame, St. Joseph County, IN, USA

  7. FailBench: How Reliable are VLMs at Judging Robot Task Success?

    Sep 3, 2026Zaruhi Navasardyan, Tatul Danielyan, Hrant DavtyanVLM EvaluationRobot Failure Detection

    Metric AI Lab

  8. Geometric Attractor Monitoring: A Robust and Frugal Framework for Multi-modal Industrial Robotic Cycles

    Aug 31, 2026Martin Bonsergent-Brachet, Jesse Read, Dany AbboudRobot Failure DetectionIndustrial Anomaly Detection

    LIX, École Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Palaiseau, France · Renault, France

  9. ContactGuard: Pre-Contact Execution Monitoring with Action-Conditioned Latent World Models

    Aug 13, 2026Gehan Zheng, Matthew Johnson-Roberson, Weiming ZhiRobot Failure DetectionContact-Rich Robotic Manipulation

    College of Connected Computing, Vanderbilt University, USA. · School of Computer Science, The University of Sydney, Australia. · 3Australian Centre for Robotics, The University of Sydney, Australia.

  10. Failure Detection for Surgical Robot Imitation Policies via Flow-Matching World Modeling

    Jul 29, 2026Zhefeng Huang, Yilin Cai, Ankit Patel +3Robot Failure DetectionWorld Models

  11. LabRobFail: A Benchmark for Robotic Failure Analysis in Chemical Self-driving Laboratory

    Jul 26, 2026Haobo Wang, Baoli Sun, Anqi Zou +8Robot Failure DetectionRobotics

    School of Software, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China · Shenzhen Loop Area Institute-Hong Kong Science and Technology Innovation Cooperation Zone, Shenzhen, China · School of Computer Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China +3

  12. Interventional Causal Circuits for Safe Robot Action Testing and Failure Recovery

    Jul 16, 2026Naren Vasantakumaar, Tom Schierenbeck, Michael BeetzRobot Failure DetectionRobot Failure Recovery

    Institute for Artificial Intelligence, University of Bremen

  13. REPAIR-Bench: A Benchmark for Robot Error Perception And Interaction Recovery

    Jun 29, 2026Giuliano Pioldi, Yashika Batra, Arman Ibrayeva +4Robot Failure DetectionRobot Failure Recovery

    Cornell University Cornell Tech New York, NY

  14. Early Warning Signals for OpenVLA Failure under Visual Distribution Shift

    Jun 29, 2026Dipesh Tharu Mahato, Rachel RenRobot Failure DetectionDistribution Shift

    New York University

  15. Foresight: Failure Detection for Long-Horizon Robotic Manipulation with Action-Conditioned World Model Latents

    Jun 22, 2026Haoran Zhang, Yifu Lu, Boyang Wang +5Long-Horizon Robotic ManipulationRobot Failure Detection

    University of Michigan · Princeton University · University of Virginia

  16. Robot Critics that Sweat the Small Stuff

    Jun 19, 2026Sruthi Sudhakar, Junbang Liang, Sreehari Rammohan +3Robot Failure DetectionVLM Adaptation

    Columbia University · Toyota Research Institute

  17. Tri-Info: Generalizable, Interpretable Failure Prediction for VLA Models via Information Theory

    Jun 18, 2026Jinghan Yang, Yunchao Zhang, Wang Yuan +4Robot Failure DetectionVision-Language-Action Models

    HKU Musketeers Foundation Institute of Data Science · InfoBodied AI Lab, The University of Hong Kong

  18. Fail-RAG : A Retrieval Augmented Generation Informed Framework for Robot Failure Identification

    Jun 17, 2026Ameya Salvi, Jie HuRetrieval-Augmented GenerationRobot Failure Detection

    Hitachi America, Ltd., Michigan, U.S.A.

  19. Safe, Real-Time Active Model Discrimination and Fault Diagnosis for Nonlinear Systems via Differentiable Reachability

    Jun 17, 2026Xinpei Ni, Melkior Ornik, Glen Chou +1Robot Failure DetectionRobust Control

    Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Machines (IRIM), Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA · Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA

  20. Uncertainty Quantification for Flow-Based Vision-Language-Action Models

    Jun 16, 2026Ralf Römer, Maximilian Seeliger, Saida Liu +5Flow MatchingUncertainty Estimation for VLA Models

    TU Munich · ETH Zurich · TU of Munich +1

  21. ActProbe: Action-Space Probe for Early Failure Detection of Generative Robot Policies

    Jun 7, 2026Bingjia Huang, Xiangyu Li, Xiang Wang +7Robot Policy LearningRobot Failure Detection

    Institute for AI Industry Research (AIR), Tsinghua University · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · Work done during internship at AIR, Tsinghua University. +1

  22. AEGIS: A Backup Reflex for Physical AI

    Jun 4, 2026Josef ChenRobot Policy LearningLong-Horizon Robotic Manipulation

    KAIKAKU

  23. Teaching Robots to Say 'I Don't Know' : SENTINEL for Uncertainty-Aware SLAM

    Jun 3, 2026Abhishek S, Badrikanath Praharaj, Sreeram MVSimultaneous Localization and MappingRobot Failure Detection

    BuildMachineLabs

  24. How Visible Are Silent Manipulation Failures? An Observability Study of False-Success Detection in Simulated Robot Episodes

    Jun 2, 2026Aarav BediRobot Failure DetectionBimanual Robotic Manipulation

    University of California, Berkeley · Department of Mechanical Engineering University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, California, USA

  25. Hide-and-Seek in Trajectories: Discovering Failure Signals for VLA Runtime Monitoring

    May 29, 2026Seongheon Park, Wendi Li, Changdae Oh +4Robot Failure DetectionFault Detection

    University of Wisconsin–Madison · Georgia Institute of Technology

  26. How VLAs Fail Differently: Black-Box Action Monitoring Reveals Architecture-Specific Failure Signatures

    May 27, 2026Krishnam GuptaAgent Failure AnalysisRobot Failure Detection

    Independent Research San Francisco, CA

  27. Rewind-IL: Online Failure Detection and State Respawning for Imitation Learning

    Apr 17, 2026Gehan Zheng, Sanjay Seenivasan, Matthew Johnson-Roberson +1Robot Failure DetectionRobot Failure Recovery

    College of Connected Computing, Vanderbilt University, USA. · School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Canada. · School of Computer Science, The University of Sydney, Australia. +1

  28. ReconVLA: An Uncertainty-Guided and Failure-Aware Vision-Language-Action Framework for Robotic Control

    Apr 17, 2026Lingling Chen, Zongyao Lyu, William J. BeksiUncertainty Estimation for VLA ModelsRobot Failure Detection

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, USA