arXiv:2609.13231v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models demonstrate strong generalization in robotic manipulation and navigation, but existing fine-tuning methods provid...
By Manan Tayal, Akshay Nambi
arXiv:2603. 08862v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Autonomous navigation in highly constrained environments remains challenging for mobile robots.
By Yuanjie Lu, Beichen Wang, Zhengqi Wu, Yang Li, Xiaomin Lin, Chengzhi Mao, Xuesu Xiao
arXiv:2606. 09749v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have demonstrated impressive end-to-end performance across a variety of robotic manipulation tasks.
By Seongbin Park, Fan Zhang, Baharan Mirzasoleiman, Shahriar Talebi, Nader Sehatbakhsh
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: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
arXiv:2608. 00315v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robot policies are becoming increasingly general, with vision-language-action (VLA) models enabling a single policy to execute diverse tasks specified in natural language.
By Ihab Tabbara, Yuxuan Yang, Hussein Sibai
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:2609.27816v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Safe coordination in heterogeneous machine-to-machine (M2M) robotic systems is challenging when robots differ in sensing capabilities, environmental...
By Mohamed Dwedar, Ahmad Hafez, Alexander Jesser, Amr Alanwar
arXiv:2609.37554v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used as high-level planners in robot navigation, but their outputs may become unreliable when instructi...
By {\L}ukasz Sobczak, Nur Kele\c{s}o\u{g}lu, S{\l}awomir Piotr Nowak
arXiv:2604. 16993v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: As embodied AI transitions to real-world deployment, the success of the Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) task tends to evolve from mere reachability to social compliance.
By Jiawen Wen, Penglei Sun, Wenjie Zhang, Suixuan Qiu, Weisheng Xu, Xiaofei Yang, Xiaowen Chu
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
arXiv:2610.09294v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Rapid progress in AI agents has brought growing attention to agent safety, with extensive evaluation focused on digital environments. As agents move...
By Tianruo Rose Xu, Jiawei Ren, Yichi Yang, Zhaoxu Zheng, Lianhui Qin