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Streaming Failure Forecasting

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A robotics research project studying failure monitors that keep learning from robot episodes after deployment.

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Robotics researchers studying deployment-time failure
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The project reports better failure rankings in four of five simulation test suites, including its pre-registered primary test.

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The research log records activity across several dated posts, from simulation evaluations to a real-arm setup. That rig uses a low-cost SO-101, three cameras recording at 30 fps, and AprilTags for automatic episode labels. A separate entry describes testing a language model on a two-arm handoff without demonstrations or training; the proposed foresight-based warning test is presented as future work, not a completed result.

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