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Design Real-Time VLA Failure Handling

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You are working on a vision-language-action system that controls a physical robot in real time. The model must interpret camera input, language instructions, and recent action history, then produce safe low-latency actions in changing environments.

Question

What are the primary failure modes of Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models when deployed in real-time, low-latency physical environments?