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
arXiv:2607. 17574v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement-learning navigation policies for legged robots select actions reactively from current observations and short-term memory, with limited capacity to anticipate how moving obstacles will evolve in the near future.
By Yancheng Zhu, Wanli Ma, Chen Han, Irvin Haozhe Zhan, Bingfeng Qin, Yixin Xu
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.
By Zecheng Yin, Benedict Jun Ma
arXiv:2606. 00267v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Video world models (WMs) have shown promise for policy evaluation and improvement by imagining realistic future observations conditioned on ego-robot actions.
By Junwon Seo, Sushant Veer, Ran Tian, Wenhao Ding, Apoorva Sharma, Karen Leung, Edward Schmerling, Marco Pavone, Andrea Bajcsy
arXiv:2608. 07267v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent vision-language navigation (VLN) systems increasingly adapt pretrained vision-language models (VLMs) into vision-language-action (VLA) policies that map egocentric observations and language instructions directly to navigation actions.
By Yuehao Huang, Yunzi Wu, Xiaotao Zhang, Xinhai Li, Jiankun Dong, Jiajun Lv, Chi Zhang, Chenjia Bai, Yong Liu, Xuelong Li
arXiv:2606. 30696v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Enabling robots to follow natural language commands to complete zero-shot long-horizon tasks remains challenging.
By Kaier Liang, Hengde Dai, Cristian-Ioan Vasile
arXiv:2607. 07885v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Dynamic obstacle avoidance in unstructured outdoor environments remains a critical challenge for autonomous mobile robots, particularly when large-scale robot-specific training data and simulation-based policies are impractical.
By Erik Jagnandan, Mulugeta Haile, Gregory Barber, Pratik Chaudhari
arXiv:2606. 04226v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Simulation environments are useful for both robot policy learning and planning verification and validation.
By Charlie Gauthier, Sacha Morin, Liam Paull
arXiv:2603. 18624v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Zero-shot object-goal navigation (ZSON) requires navigating unknown environments to find a target object without task-specific training.
By Shuqi Xiao, Maani Ghaffari, Chengzhong Xu, Hui Kong
arXiv:2603. 03953v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Safe visual navigation is critical for indoor mobile robots operating in cluttered environments.
By Jaewon Lee, Jaeseok Heo, Gunmin Lee, Howoong Jun, Jeongwoo Oh, Songhwai Oh
arXiv:2603. 25937v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Visual Navigation Models (VNMs) promise generalizable, robot navigation by learning from large-scale visual demonstrations.
By Maeva Guerrier, Karthik Soma, Jana Pavlasek, Giovanni Beltrame
Building memory is essential for long-horizon planning in zero-shot embodied navigation. Detector-centric scene graphs often compress observations into sparse nodes, discarding fine-grained visual evidence and accumulating noise, while 3D reconstruction-based methods remain computationally prohibitive.