LabRobFail: A Benchmark for Robotic Failure Analysis in Chemical Self-driving Laboratory
LabRobFail, a failure-centric framework for learning and evaluating robotic failure analysis in chemical laboratories, and LabRobFail-VLM, a domain-specialized vision-language model that generates structured failure diagnoses and recovery instructions, demonstrate the value of fine-grained failure understanding for closed-loop recovery and reliable laboratory autonomy.