ResearchResearch paperSafety & Alignment · Robotics & Embodied AI1 source · Oct 6, 2026

HygieneRoboBench: Benchmarking Hygiene-Aware Planning for Household Robots

We introduce HygieneRoboBench, with 624 instances across 134 task families, to evaluate safe resolution of household tasks from a given execution history.

Key points

  • Contact with contaminated objects can spread hazards through a household robot's grippers, tools, and shared surfaces, while new contacts can make an existing plan unsafe.
  • Existing benchmarks do not jointly assess how planners identify hygiene risks from contact history and plan safe continuations after new contact events.
  • We combine controlled history, profile, and event comparisons with independent plan evaluation.
  • To address this problem, we introduce Hygiene-NSP.

Sources (1)

  • [1]HygieneRoboBench: Benchmarking Hygiene-Aware Planning for Household Robots
    arXiv (AI, ML, NLP, CV, robotics, multi-agent) · Oct 6, 04:33 PM
    We introduce HygieneRoboBench, with 624 instances across 134 task families, to evaluate safe resolution of household tasks from a given execution history.
    Contact with contaminated objects can spread hazards through a household robot's grippers, tools, and shared surfaces, while new contacts can make an existing plan unsafe.

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