Robotics PapersA programme for reading clubs

Topic 17 of 17

Safety & evaluation in robotics

Safety and evaluation asks whether a robot policy fails safely and how anyone would know: formal verification, safety-critical control, failure detection, and the honest-measurement problem of small-sample real-robot experiments.

51papers in 2026-07
4.36%of all cs.RO that month
+0.62ppshare change, last 6 vs prior 12 months
24-month volume

arXiv query: cat:cs.RO AND (abs:"safety-critical" OR abs:"safe control" OR abs:"formal verification" OR abs:"failure detection" OR abs:"control barrier")

Presented at reading clubs

These already have a slide kit, so they are the fastest ones to pick up and present.

2026-02-06
Shenyuan Gao, William Liang, Kaiyuan Zheng +27 · 96 citations
2023-01-10
Danijar Hafner, Jurgis Pasukonis, Jimmy Ba +1 · 1,333 citations

Recent work

2026-09-08
Brendan Gould, Zhiyuan Zhang, Panagiotis Tsiotras +1

684 papers in this corpus carry the safety & evaluation tag. How tagging works.