3 papers
cs.RO2026
Safety Guardrails for LLM-Enabled Robots
Zachary Ravichandran, Alexander Robey, Vijay Kumar +2
Although the integration of large language models (LLMs) into robotics has unlocked transformative capabilities, it has also introduced significant safety concerns, ranging from av…
cs.RO2026
Contextual Safety Reasoning and Grounding for Open-World Robots
Zachary Ravichandran, David Snyder, Alexander Robey +3
Robots are increasingly operating in open-world environments where safe behavior depends on context: the same hallway may require different navigation strategies when crowded versu…
cs.RO2025
SPINE: Online Semantic Planning for Missions with Incomplete Natural Language Specifications in Unstructured Environments
Zachary Ravichandran, Varun Murali, Mariliza Tzes +2
As robots become increasingly capable, users will want to describe high-level missions and have robots infer the relevant details. Because pre-built maps are difficult to obtain in…