# Safe-Night VLA: Thermal-Perceptive Vision-Language-Action Models for Safety-Critical Manipulation

- Source: arXiv cs.RO
- Published: 2026-10-22T04:00:00.000Z
- RoboHot: https://robohot.news/en/items/hkcz45n5z9nxpxc33haj55g25
- Original: https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.05754

## Summary

Safe-Night VLA is a multimodal manipulation framework that integrates long-wave infrared thermal perception into a pre-trained vision-language backbone, enabling robots to perform semantic reasoning based on thermodynamic properties and to enforce deterministic workspace constraints during policy execution through a control barrier functions safety filter.