cs.RO · 2026-08-01 · No. 71

Robotics, 2026-08-01.

3 new papers in cs.RO. Titles, authors, abstracts. Links to arXiv. Want this in your inbox every morning? Subscribe →

01 — The papers

3 entries
  1. 01

    PAC-MAN: Perception-Aware CBF-RL for Whole-Body Safety in Humanoid Dodgeball

    Lizhi Yang, Junheng Li, Aaron D. Ames

    cs.RO · cs.AI

    We present PAC-MAN, a perception-aware CBF-RL framework that couples control-barrier safety with deployment-realistic onboard sensing for whole-body humanoid dodgeball. The deployed policy sees the ball only as segmentation-masked depth from a head-mounted camera, while training-time CBF guidance represents clearance to every body link, and an adversarial motion prior regularizes the resulting evasive reflexes. We evaluate on a controlled...

    arxiv.org/abs/2607.28623 · PDF

  2. 02

    Machines that know they are aging: a framework for hardware-aware autonomous intelligence

    Cheng Siong Chin, Jianhua Zhang, Mohan Venkateshkumar

    cs.RO · cs.AI

    Autonomous systems inevitably age, yet their artificial intelligence typically assumes hardware remains in its original condition. Batteries degrade, sensors drift, processors accumulate timing errors, and memory reliability declines, creating a growing mismatch between assumed and actual capability. This can lead to agnostic collapse, where mission failure arises from accumulated hardware degradation rather than a single component fault. We...

    arxiv.org/abs/2607.28451 · PDF

  3. 03

    RoboBRIDGE: A Modular Framework for Bridging Policies to Robust Real-World Robotic Agents

    Sihyung Yoon, Minjong Yoo, Sanghyun Ahn, Seojeong Choi, Honguk Woo

    cs.RO · cs.AI

    Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have attracted growing interest as a scalable approach to robotic manipulation. While these models are effective action predictors, deploying them as robotic agents exposes critical gaps: no mechanism for failure recovery, inconsistent execution over long horizons, and limited robustness to shifts in observations, tasks, or embodiments. Existing solutions address these limitations individually through model...

    arxiv.org/abs/2607.27881 · PDF

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