{
  "id": 11077216,
  "title": "Blackout vs. Freeze: Analyzing Physical Failure Modes of VLAs under Camera Faults",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/30/blackout-vs-freeze-analyzing-physical-failure-modes-of-vlas-under",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-09-30T07:11:58.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "arXiv cs.AI",
    "slug": "arxiv-cs-ai",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.39145v1"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Unreliable visual inputs can harm task performance and cause potential physical safety risks for vision-language-action (VLA) models. We analyze how $π0.5$ and GR00T models act under input faults such as image blackouts and freezing. We find that blackout and freezing produce distinct physical failure modes even when task-success rates are similarly low: freezing causes more extreme joint…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}