{
  "id": 6147,
  "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.07921v1",
  "title": "The Sustainability Gap in Robotics: A Large-Scale Survey of Sustainability Awareness in 50,000 Research Articles",
  "summary": "We present a large-scale survey of sustainability communication and motivation in robotics research. Our analysis covers nearly 50,000 open-access papers from arXiv's cs.RO category published between 2015 and early 2026. In this study, we quantify how often papers mention social, ecological, and sustainability impacts, and we analyse their alignment with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The results reveal a persistent gap between the field's potential and its stated intent. While a l",
  "authors": "Antun Skuric, Leandro Von Werra, Thomas Wolf",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "safety-alignment,agents-autonomy",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-04-09T07:41:49.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-14T16:32:15.638Z",
  "source_slug": "arxiv-ethics",
  "source_name": "arXiv",
  "source_homepage": "https://arxiv.org",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/6147",
  "original_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.07921v1",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}