Same Frame, Different Progress: Why Robot Monitors Need Verified Context
TL;DR for operators A robot’s current camera view may show what it is doing without revealing how much of its assigned task it has completed. In a paired evaluation of five frozen progress reward models, supplying the correct active-subtask context reduced mean absolute progress error by 77–82%. The improvement occurred on 93.3% of annotated subtask intervals. These results come from manually supplied context, not autonomous inference.1 ...