Research paper
Initiation Safety: A Missing Dimension in Generalist-Robot Safety
This position-style work distinguishes permission to initiate interaction from safe motion after an action is chosen. It describes a doorway-humanoid implementation and logged-trace comparison while proposing further user study. Consent and social initiation complement physical hazard controls; the proposed study is not a completed result.
Reviewed 2026-11-05 · Source and bibliography checked
- Original title
- Initiation Safety: A Missing Dimension in Generalist-Robot Safety
- Publisher
- arXiv
- Authors
- Meng, Zhijin, Cruz, Francisco
- DOI
- 10.48550/arxiv.2607.07420
- First archive posting
- 2026-07-08
- Source language
- en
- Source country
- US
- Edition
- v2
- Access
- Open archive metadata and manuscript
- Publication status
- Preprint
Related resources and engineering notes
Source overview
This position-style work distinguishes permission to initiate interaction from safe motion after an action is chosen. It describes a doorway-humanoid implementation and logged-trace comparison while proposing further user study. Consent and social initiation complement physical hazard controls; the proposed study is not a completed result.
Use and review
Original summary of the primary archive abstract and bibliographic record. Specialist technical and native-language review remain pending. The reported method does not establish a deployed safety function or achieved PL.
Sources & editions
Initiation Safety: A Missing Dimension in Generalist-Robot Safety ↗
arXiv · v2
arXiv abstract, authors, submission history and DOI links; first posting 2026-07-08, abstract reviewed in v2. Publisher dates are separate.