arXiv AI

Benchmarking Obstacle-Conditioned Safety in Household Robot Navigation

arXiv AI
Oct 2

UrbanVLA: A Vision-Language-Action Model for Urban Micromobility

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.

By Anqi Li, Zhiyong Wang, Jiazhao Zhang, Minghan Li, Yunpeng Qi, Zhibo Chen, Zhizheng Zhang, He Wang
arXiv AI
Jul 17

SafeRelBench: A Spatial-Relation-Aware Benchmark for Process-Level Safety in VLM-Driven Embodied Agents

arXiv:2607. 14543v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) are increasingly used as the reasoning backbone of embodied agents, enabling robots to interpret visual scenes, follow language instructions, and plan multi-step actions.

By Huaigang Yang, Ya Li, Min Ren, Bo Dai, Zhenliang Zhang, Zhaofeng He
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 22

NavVerse: Benchmarking Indoor-to-Outdoor Embodied Navigation in Continuous Robot Simulation

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 AI
Jul 14

Think When It Matters: Conditional VLM Reasoning for Social Navigation with RL Policies

arXiv:2607. 10991v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As mobile robots become more integrated into everyday human environments, social robot navigation is becoming essential for ensuring human comfort, safety, and trust.

By Ali Ahmadi, Hamed Rahimi, Adrien Jacquet Cretides, Marie Samson, Mahdi Khoramshahi, Mohamed Chetouani