Coding Agents with Harness for Safe Robot Control
Coding agents have emerged as a promising paradigm for robot manipulation: a language model writes the robot controller as a program, and agents built in this way now operate robots without robot-specific training. Whether this paradigm is also safe, however, has not been asked. We evaluate coding agents under a safety constraint, where each task pairs a manipulation goal with an obstacle the robot must not touch. The agent pursues the goal but collides with the obstacle in most cases, treating task completion as its sole objective. The agent reasons about the obstacle in its traces, and the prompt already forbids touching it, so neither perception nor instruction is at fault; the fault l...
| Authors | Bingxin Xu, Yuzhang Shang, Zhen Dong et al. |
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| Primary category | cs.RO |
| Published | 17 September 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 2 October 2026 |
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