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Success Hid How Long the Robot Took to Recover

A resilience suite separates rebound, stability and graceful extensibility from end-of-task success.

Published Updated Story ID: mp-2026-08-26-009
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Summary

A resilience suite separates rebound, stability and graceful extensibility from end-of-task success.

Across 400 household tasks and 10 embodied-agent systems, the process metrics exposed recovery-cost differences of 25.2 among episodes that all ended successfully, along with instability and task-family degradation. Metric-guided changes reduced recovery cost and improved stability and extensibility completion, while also revealing tradeoffs among those properties.

Why it matters

A resilience suite separates rebound, stability and graceful extensibility from end-of-task success.

Limits and context

No additional limitation was separately recorded.

Key claims

  1. A resilience suite separates rebound, stability and graceful extensibility from end-of-task success.

    Evidence: source-2026-08-26-009

Sources

  1. arXiv preprint 2608.23839arXiv · primary research

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