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  1. Nine Trials to Recover: A Reproducible Benchmark for Repertoire-Free Soft-Robot Damage Adaptation

    Oct 6, 2026Siyuan ZhangRobot Policy AdaptationBayesian Optimization

    Robotics Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

  2. Recursive Self-Improvement of Visuomotor Policies through Local Recovery Supervision

    Oct 4, 2026Yuzhi Zhang, Xinyu Liu, Yu ZhangRobot Failure RecoveryVisuomotor Policy Learning

    Beihang University

  3. Recova: Agent-Guided Failure Recovery for Autonomous Robotic Manipulation

    Oct 1, 2026Isabella Liu, An-Chieh Cheng, Johan Bjorck +6Robot Failure RecoveryHuman-in-the-Loop AI

    University of California, San Diego · NVIDIA · University of Texas at Austin

  4. Spotter: Let the Embodied Model Lead, and the VLM Reflect for It

    Sep 29, 2026Long Li, Qichao Zhao, Yue Yang +6Robot Failure RecoveryVision-Language-Action Models

    Griffith University · IIIS, Tsinghua University · MainCode +3

  5. Distinguish or Homogenize: Last-Chance Policy Identification and Risk-Budgeted Recovery under Irreversible Resource Depletion

    Sep 29, 2026Yibo Guo, Xiaodan WangRobot Failure RecoveryModel-Based Planning

    School of Computer and Artificial Intelligence, Zhengzhou University, Henan Zhengzhou 450001, China

  6. Toward Human-in-the-Loop Robot Failure Recovery: Bridging Communication Gaps in Human-Robot Collaboration

    Sep 21, 2026Promise Ekpo, Teju Vijay, Dhruv Mandalik +5Human-in-the-Loop EvaluationRobot Failure Recovery

    Cornell University, New York, New York, USA · Cornell Tech, New York, New York, USA · Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA

  7. A Simulation Platform for AUV Fault Recovery: Exploring LLM-Based Diagnostic Strategies

    Sep 17, 2026Khalid Halba, Kylie Cooper, James G. BellinghamLanguage Model-Based ControlRobot Failure Recovery

    Exploration Robotics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins Institute for Assured Autonomy, Baltimore, MD, USA

  8. MAGMA-GEN: Validated Recovery Supervision from Ambiguous Failures via Counterfactual Re-Execution

    Sep 17, 2026Loan Bernat, Matthieu Grard, Ariane Herbulot +1Long-Horizon Robotic ManipulationRobot Failure Recovery

    LAAS-GEPETTO · Sil´eane, LAAS-CNRS · LAAS-RAP +2

  9. Causal-History Test-Time Scaling for Failure Recovery in Autoregressive World-Action Models

    Sep 16, 2026Lin Li, Long Chen, Kwunhang +10World Models for RoboticsWorld Models

    Edwin · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), ACCESS – AI Chip Center for Emerging Smart Systems, and Zhejiang University. · Zhejiang University. +1

  10. REVOLVE: An Automated Closed-Loop Framework for Evolving Robot Manipulation with Minimal Human Intervention

    Sep 13, 2026Hanyu Liu, Qian Li, Yizhu Ding +8Continual Robot LearningRobot Failure Recovery

    Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Food Manufacturing Equipment and Technology, School of Mechanical Engineering, Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214122, China.

  11. 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

  12. LIBERO-RECOVER: Beyond Task Success Towards Failure Recovery in Robotic Manipulation Models

    Sep 4, 2026Lin Liu, Zhicheng Bao, Lu Zhang +7Robot Failure RecoveryRobotic Manipulation

    Beta Infinity · Beijing Jiaotong University · School of Information and Communication Engineering Dalian University of Technology +1

  13. HarnessWAM: Bridging Prediction and Deliberation in World Action Models

    Aug 10, 2026Zhaopeng Gu, Bingke Zhu, Tianxi Lin +8World Models for RoboticsLarge Language Model-Based Robot Planning

    Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China · School of Artificial Intelligence, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China · Yinwang Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, China +2

  14. StableMimic: Smooth Human-Like Recovery for Humanoid Motion Tracking - Learning Beyond the Tracking Distribution for Structured Post-Fall Behavior

    Aug 3, 2026Weihao Wu, Ming Huang, Ruofei Liu +3Robot Failure RecoveryRobot Imitation Learning

    Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), Shenzhen, China.

  15. From Failures to Supervision: DynamicEnvPlan for Robust Long-Horizon Embodied Planning

    Aug 1, 2026Hao Yuan, Yuxin Wang, Lei Ji +1Robot Failure RecoveryRobot Task Planning

    University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · †Independent researchers. · 3Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI)

  16. FORGE-plus: Force-Budgeted Recovery for Contact-Rich Assembly with a Frozen LLM Supervisor

    Jul 23, 2026Kyupaeck Jeff Rah, Midum OhReinforcement LearningLanguage Model-Based Control

    Independent Researcher

  17. EgoRecovery: Acquiring Failure Recovery Ability Through Human Recovery Demonstration

    Jul 22, 2026Zuhao Ge, Yuchen Zhou, Weitao Zhou +8Robot Failure RecoveryCross-Embodiment Robot Learning

    Institute of Trustworthy Embodied AI (TEAI), Fudan University · 2Shanghai Key Laboratory of Multimodal Embodied AI · 3Simple AI

  18. 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

  19. Learning Robust Execution in Robotic Manipulation with Agentic Reinforcement Learning

    Jul 15, 2026Xiaopeng Zhang, Yueyang Weng, Qi Liu +2Agentic RLRobot Failure Recovery

    School of Inteligence Science and Engineering, the Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen, 518055, China. · Faculty of Robot Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, 110819, China.

  20. Self-Healing Visual Recovery for Autonomous Ground Vehicles Using Camera-Only Visual Odometry

    Jul 13, 2026Jakob Solberg Berntzen, Safia Fatima, Leon MoonenVisual NavigationRobot Navigation

    Simula Research Laboratory, Oslo, Norway · University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

  21. CRRL: A Causality-Based Reinforcement Learning Framework for Autonomous System Recovery

    Jul 3, 2026Safia Fatima, Kai Olav Ellefsen, Leon MoonenReinforcement LearningRobot Failure Recovery

    Simula Research Laboratory, Norway · University of Oslo, Norway

  22. FAR: Failure-Aware Retry for Test-Time Recovery and Continual Policy Improvement

    Jul 1, 2026Haoran Hao, Shahram Najam Syed, Jeffrey Ichnowski +1Robot Policy LearningRobot Policy Adaptation

    Carnegie Mellon University

  23. 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

  24. ReGuide: From Test-Time Guidance to Self-Improving Diffusion Policies

    Jun 27, 2026Tzu-Hsiang Lin, Srinivas Shakkottai, Dileep Kalathil +1Robot Policy AdaptationRobot Failure Recovery

    Texas A&M University

  25. Recover, Discover, Plan: Learning Skills and Concepts from Robot Failures

    Jun 16, 2026Bowen Li, Mayank Mishra, Y. Isabel Liu +7Robot Skill LearningGeneralization in Robotic Manipulation

    CMU · Centaur AI · Princeton +3

  26. Agile Fall Recovery for Quadrotors with Bidirectional Thrust via Reinforcement Learning

    Jun 15, 2026Anke Zhao, Yuhang Zhong, Kenghou Hoi +5Robot Failure RecoveryRobotic RL

    Institute of Cyber-Systems and Control, College of Control Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China · Differential Robotics, Hangzhou 311121, China

  27. Robust Fall Recovery for Armless Bipedal-Wheeled Robots Via Force-Guided Learning

    Jun 12, 2026Haidong Hou, Zhangguo Yu, Tao Han +6Robot Failure RecoveryRobot Locomotion

    School of Mechatronical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China

  28. Selective Agentic Recovery for UAV Autonomy with a Persistent Mission Runtime

    Jun 12, 2026Taewoo Park, Kyeonghyun Yoo, Seunghyun Yoo +1UAV NavigationRobot Failure Recovery

    Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Korea University

  29. ProbeAct: Probe-Guided Training-Free Failure Recovery in Vision-Language-Action Models

    Jun 8, 2026Fan Zhang, Seongbin Park, Baharan Mirzasoleiman +2VLM RobustnessRobot Failure Recovery

    University of California Los Angeles United States

  30. ReCoVLA: VLM-Guided Reward Compilation for Failure Recovery in Vision-Language-Action Policies

    Jun 8, 2026Haodi Hu, Chung-Ta Huang, Jing Liu +4Robot Failure RecoveryVision-Language-Action Models

    University of Southern California, USA · Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL), USA · Harvard University, USA