# AWARE: A world-model framework that predicts robot dynamics and identifies anomalies using only external cameras

- Source: arXiv cs.RO
- Published: 2026-10-26T04:00:00.000Z
- RoboHot: https://robohot.news/en/items/sclmqwirsfx314b1gxecd66xm
- Original: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.32742

## Summary

AWARE is a world-model framework that relies solely on external camera monitoring, performing anomaly detection through system dynamics estimation and state prediction without onboard sensors such as motor encoders. On 240 real-world robotic crane trajectories (including payload collisions and motor degradation), its anomaly classification improves by 26% over the strongest baseline; the inferred dynamics parameters can also be decoded to localize the source of faults, achieving 88% accuracy in localizing degrading motors.
