CoWAM lifts robot success 9.6 points

CoWAM raised closed-loop success by 9.6 percentage points over the strongest selective baseline across eight simulated bimanual robot tasks while keeping harmful interventions below 1%. The August 3 preprint uses coordination contracts for synchronization, role compatibility, and collision convergence, changing a policy’s chosen action only when an alternative clears every active obligation and offers a low-risk improvement. For robotics teams using simulation as a screening funnel before hardware trials, the result is worth filing as a safety pattern rather than a production guarantee: predicted futures need explicit admission rules before they earn control authority.