arXiv:2606.03312v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While household robots are often evaluated based on task completion, everyday domestic environments involve value-conflicting situations in which robots are expected to choose actions that prioritize other values than task success, such as human autonomy, efficiency, or social appropriateness. Yet, there are no benchmarks for evaluating robots' value preferences in such scenarios. We introduce RobotValues, a benchmark to evaluate household robot planners in 10K value-conflict scenarios. Each instance consists of a realistic household image with
The increasing sophistication of household robotics necessitates more advanced evaluation benchmarks that go beyond mere task completion to incorporate complex human values.
This benchmark addresses a critical gap in assessing robotic behavior in real-world, value-conflicting scenarios, which is crucial for ethical deployment and broader public acceptance of household robots.
The development and evaluation of household robots will now be guided by a more nuanced understanding of human values, moving beyond purely functional metrics to encompass ethical and social considerations.
- · Robotics developers focusing on ethical AI
- · Consumers of household robots
- · AI safety researchers
- · Academic robotics labs
- · Robot manufacturers ignoring ethical considerations
- · Developers solely focused on task efficiency
Robot designs and algorithms will begin to incorporate value-prioritization frameworks more explicitly to perform better on these new benchmarks.
Public trust and adoption of household robots may accelerate as their ability to navigate complex social situations improves.
The definition of 'intelligence' in robotics could broaden to include emotional and ethical intelligence, influencing future AI development paradigms.
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