3 papers
cs.RO2026
VLA-Arena: An Open-Source Framework for Benchmarking Vision-Language-Action Models
Borong Zhang, Jiahao Li, Jiachen Shen +8
While Vision-Language-Action models (VLAs) are rapidly advancing toward generalist robot policies, quantitatively characterizing their capability boundaries and failure modes remai…
cs.RO2026
RedVLA: Physical Red Teaming for Vision-Language-Action Models
Yuhao Zhang, Borong Zhang, Jiaming Fan +4
The real-world deployment of Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models remains limited by the risk of unpredictable and irreversible physical harm. However, we currently lack effective m…
cs.RO2026
SafeVLA: Towards Safety Alignment of Vision-Language-Action Model via Constrained Learning
Borong Zhang, Yuhao Zhang, Jiaming Ji +5
Vision-language-action models (VLAs) show potential as generalist robot policies. However, these models pose extreme safety challenges during real-world deployment, including the r…