The paper introduces the Neverwhere Visual Parkour Benchmark Suite, a collection of over sixty hyper‑photo‑realistic 3D Gaussian Splatting reconstructions of urban indoor and outdoor scenes designed to evaluate visual locomotion controllers in closed‑loop, continuous testing setups. It aims to bridge the gap between training and real‑world evaluation by providing reproducible environments and policy checkpoints trained across multiple scenes, while highlighting the risks of relying solely on 3D Gaussian‑generated data. The authors offer code and data on their project page for easy integration into robotic evaluation pipelines.
arXiv:2603. 25937v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Visual Navigation Models (VNMs) promise generalizable, robot navigation by learning from large-scale visual demonstrations.
arXiv:2603. 03953v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Safe visual navigation is critical for indoor mobile robots operating in cluttered environments.
3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) can reconstruct a captured scene photorealistically, but the resulting representation does not by itself support physical interaction. Robot simulation instead requires ob...
arXiv:2610.01744v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robot manipulation models primarily reason from 2D observations while acting in the 3D physical world. To bridge this gap, recent work has augmented ro...
arXiv:2609.26795v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) can reconstruct a captured scene photorealistically, but the resulting representation does not by itself support physica...
arXiv:2609.21347v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent progress in 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has enabled dense visual SLAM with pinhole cameras, yet most pipelines are not designed for panoramic i...
arXiv:2606. 30645v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Perception-based humanoid loco-manipulation requires connecting egocentric observations and task instructions to whole-body motion.
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.
Perception-based humanoid loco-manipulation requires connecting egocentric observations and task instructions to whole-body motion. Learning this mapping requires synchronized egocentric images, language commands, and robot-compatible kinematic trajectories, yet no existing data source provides this complete tuple at scale.
arXiv:2606. 29237v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robust robot autonomy depends on scene representations that remain stable enough to support localization, navigation, and downstream decision making in dynamic environments.
arXiv:2607.08098v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Event cameras are increasingly adopted in embodied perception for their microsecond temporal resolution, high dynamic range, and resilience to moti...
Habitat-GS is a navigation-focused embodied AI simulator that extends Habitat‑Sim by incorporating 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) for real‑time photorealistic rendering and scalable asset import. It introduces a Gaussian avatar module that represents dynamic humans as both photorealistic visual entities and navigation obstacles, enabling agents to learn human‑aware behaviors. Experiments show that agents trained on 3DGS scenes generalize better across domains and that the avatar system supports effective human‑aware navigation while maintaining system scalability.