WildOS is a unified system that enables long‑range, open‑vocabulary object search in unstructured outdoor environments by combining safe geometric exploration with semantic visual reasoning. It constructs a sparse navigation graph for spatial memory and uses the ExploRFM vision module to score frontier nodes, predicting traversability, visual frontiers, and object similarity in real time. A particle‑filter localization method estimates distant goal positions, allowing the robot to plan toward far‑away targets, and field experiments show WildOS outperforms purely geometric or vision‑based baselines in efficiency and autonomy.
arXiv:2606. 18634v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: To locate a target object while exploring the unknown environment is a fundamental capability for autonomous agents, with applications ranging from search-and-rescue to field robots.
arXiv:2610.07569v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Dense 3D mapping with semantic understanding is essential for robotic perception in complex environments. Recent 3D Gaussian Splatting-based mapping...
RoboAtlas is a contextual Active SLAM framework that balances geometric exploration with semantic reasoning through a scalable 3D semantic mapping system called OpenRoboVox. It uses frontier exploration, global semantic‑map reasoning, and egocentric VLM‑based reasoning guided by a contextual multi‑armed bandit to shift from exploration to semantically guided navigation as scene understanding improves. In simulation and on a Unitree Go2 robot, RoboAtlas achieved a 100% task success rate in environments over 1800 m² with ~30k semantic instances, and outperformed prior baselines on the GOAT‑Bench "Val Unseen" benchmark, reaching 90.6% SR with GPT‑4o and 88.8% SR with Qwen2.5‑VL‑7B.
arXiv:2609.38620v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Neural implicit representations have had a significant impact on scene reconstruction by enabling robots to build continuous, differentiable, and high-...
arXiv:2609.16737v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generative video models can serve as a promising backbone for robot navigation by predicting future observations as video plans. Recent approaches of...
CueNav is a video model-based navigation framework that uses visual cues—a Bird's-Eye View map for global task context and a body-aware egocentric view for embodiment context—to guide a video planner. The framework couples this planner with an embodiment-specific Inverse-Dynamics Model that translates dense flow fields from the video plan into robot actions. Experiments show that CueNav nearly doubles maze navigation success compared to cue-less planning and achieves 70% success in narrow passages, while also supporting zero-shot semantic-conditioned navigation across different robot platforms.
arXiv:2608.29315v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This work introduces Semantically-Guided Exploration (SGE), a modular exploration framework for ground vehicles that integrates pixel-level semantic...
Generative video models can serve as a promising backbone for robot navigation by predicting future observations as video plans. Recent approaches often condition video planning on short-horizon guida...
AOV-GS is an active 3D Gaussian mapping system that uses frozen foundation models (SAM and CLIP) to guide exploration toward semantically informative regions. During coarse exploration, it re‑ranks geometrically promising views based on CLIP mask‑embedding novelty from SAM instance segmentation, biasing the robot’s trajectory. The system fits a lightweight scene‑specific language field offline to the collected CLIP embeddings, enabling open‑vocabulary text‑query segmentation on novel views and improving language‑field mIoU by 1.3–1.8 percentage points over geometry‑only planning on Replica and Matterport3D.
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.
arXiv:2603. 25937v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Visual Navigation Models (VNMs) promise generalizable, robot navigation by learning from large-scale visual demonstrations.
UrbanVLA is a Vision‑Language‑Action framework designed to enable delivery robots to navigate large‑scale urban environments using long‑horizon route instructions. The model aligns noisy route waypoints with visual observations and plans trajectories, trained through a two‑stage pipeline of supervised fine‑tuning on simulated data and reinforcement fine‑tuning on mixed simulation and real‑world data. Experiments show UrbanVLA outperforms strong baselines by over 55% on the SocialNav task and demonstrates reliable real‑world navigation in large urban settings.