Safe-Night VLA: Seeing the Unseen via Thermal-Perceptive Vision-Language-Action Models for Safety-Critical Manipulation

arXiv:2603.05754 · cs.RO · Submitted 2026-03-05 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-03-05

Updated: 2026-10-20

Terminology

• Current Vision-Language-Action — 1× in this paper
• Foundation Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Foundation Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Vision-Language-Action (VLA) Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes

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