Robots deployed in delivery, campus, and emergency-response settings often need to navigate from buildings to streets within a single continuous episode. Existing benchmarks usually evaluate indoor and outdoor navigation separately, and many abstract away robot execution, leaving exit finding, boundary traversal, adaptation, and kinodynamic failures underexplored.
arXiv:2606. 09669v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Spatial reasoning is a foundational capability for multimodal large language models (MLLMs) to perceive and operate within the physical world.
By Hongcheng Gao, Hailong Qu, Jingyi Tang, Jiahao Wang, Zihao Huang, Hengkang Qiao, Shihong Huang, Junming Yang, Yi Li, Hongyixuan Yuan, Wenjie Li, Bohan Zeng, Wenbo Li, Bo Wang, Jianhui Liu, Olive Huang, Haoyang Huang, Wentao Zhang, Guoqing Huang, Nan Duan, Yinpeng Dong
arXiv:2606. 06147v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: End-to-end Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have shown promise in UAV navigation.
By Shengtao Zheng, Kai Li, Weichen Zhang, Yu Meng, Chen Gao, Xinlei Chen, Yong Li, Xiao-Ping Zhang
arXiv:2606. 03609v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Embodied agents that navigate cities rely on world models that predict how their surroundings will change as they move.
By Xuhui Lin, Stephen Law, Nanjiang Chen, Kunyao Li, Tao Yang
arXiv:2606. 00095v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) enables embodied agents to reach target locations in unseen environments by following language instructions.
By Kailing Li, Tianwen Qian, Lijin Yang, Yuqian Fu, Jingyu Gong, Xiaoling Wang, Liang He
arXiv:2601. 19099v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision--language models (VLMs) achieve strong performance on many multimodal benchmarks but remain brittle on spatial reasoning tasks that require aligning abstract overhead representations with egocentric views.
By Yosub Shin, Michael Buriek, Igor Molybog
arXiv:2606. 11909v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Benchmarks are essential for evaluating embodied spatial intelligence, yet their construction is labor-intensive, hard to reuse, and difficult to maintain.
By Baoyang Jiang, Fengchun Zhang, Leyuan Wang, Haotian Li, Yida Wang, Zhe Ji, Jinshan Lai, Xi Ren, Jianwei Hu, Qiang Ma
arXiv:2606. 08992v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-and-Language Navigation in continuous environments requires agents to understand the spatial structure of previously unseen environments in order to follow language instructions.
By Yucheng Deng, Pingrui Lai, Xinhai Li, Chenjia Bai, Xiaoheng Deng, Chengnuo Sun, Xuelong Li, Hua Yang
arXiv:2606. 02956v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Existing autonomous driving datasets have enabled major progress, but fall short in sensor fidelity, map completeness, or geographic diversity.
By Richard Schwarzkopf, Fabian Immel, Alexander Blumberg, Jonas Merkert, Nils Rack, Kaiwen Wang, Fabian Konstantinidis, Julian Truetsch, Carlos Fernandez, Annika B\"atz, Kevin R\"osch, Marlon Steiner, Willi Poh, Yinzhe Shen, Royden Wagner, Felix Hauser, Dominik Strutz, Jaime Villa, Gleb Stepanov, Holger Caesar, \"Omer \c{S}ahin Ta\c{s}, Frank Bieder, Jan-Hendrik Pauls, Christoph Stiller
arXiv:2603. 16016v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: A single egocentric image typically captures only a small portion of the floor, yet a complete metric traversability map of the surroundings would better serve applications such as indoor navigation.
By Subhransu S. Bhattacharjee, Dylan Campbell, Rahul Shome
arXiv:2606. 06390v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Indoor scene generation is crucial for robot simulation and modern interior design.
By Wenbo Li, Xiaoliang Ju, Zipeng Qin, Rongyao Fang, Hongsheng Li
arXiv:2606. 31919v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Zero-shot Object Goal Navigation (ZSON) with RGB-only perception poses a fundamental challenge for embodied agents, as the absence of explicit depth information introduces severe physical uncertainty and semantic-physical misalignment.
By Wenyuan Xie, Shaokai Wu, Yijin Zhou, Yanbiao Ji, Guodong Zhang, Bayram Bayramli, Qiuchang Li, Xunchu Zhou, Yue Ding, Hongtao Lu