Embodiment Meets Environment: Toward Context-Aware, Safe Physical Caregiving Robots

arXiv:2606.28592v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Physical caregiving robots need to assist different users with different tasks in diverse environments, and they come in many embodiments. While substantial progress has been made on individual caregiving tasks, most existing systems remain tightly coupled to specific environments and robot embodiments, and often do not explicitly model or constrain interactions around people, despite humans being special agents in the environment. This motivates a...