{
  "id": 18218,
  "title": "PAC-MAN: Perception-Aware CBF-RL for Whole-Body Safety in Humanoid Dodgeball",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/07/30/pac-man-perception-aware-cbf-rl-for-whole-body-safety-in-humanoid",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-07-30T17:59:35.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "arXiv cs.AI",
    "slug": "arxiv-cs-ai",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.28623v1"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "We present PAC-MAN, a perception-aware CBF-RL framework that couples control-barrier safety with deployment-realistic onboard sensing for whole-body humanoid dodgeball. The deployed policy sees the ball only as segmentation-masked depth from a head-mounted camera, while training-time CBF guidance represents clearance to every body link, and an adversarial motion prior regularizes the resulting…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "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."
}