A new spatial memory system for robots efficiently captures details about the objects they see while exploring their environment.
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Mem2Ego introduces a vision‑language model for embodied navigation that combines global memory with egocentric visual inputs. By adaptively retrieving task‑relevant cues from a global memory module and aligning them with local perception, the framework improves spatial reasoning and decision‑making over long horizons. The method outperforms prior state‑of‑the‑art approaches on the HSSD and HM3D benchmarks and shows strong performance on a real robot.
The paper introduces EvolvingNav, a system that builds a time‑indexed belief about moving targets in dynamic environments by combining timestamped 3D object histories with a persistence‑relocation model. It uses an event‑driven filter to update beliefs over time, incorporates RGB‑D evidence, and applies a zero‑shot vision‑language controller for action selection. The authors also present EvoWorld‑Bench, a large benchmark of human‑activity‑based scenes, and demonstrate that EvolvingNav outperforms baselines in both simulation and real‑robot experiments, especially when temporal patterns are learnable.
arXiv:2510. 14357v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Agricultural robots are emerging as powerful assistants across a wide range of agricultural tasks, nevertheless, they are still heavily relying on manual operations or fixed railways for movement.
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:2608. 14986v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-horizon robotic manipulation fundamentally relies on persistent spatial memory.
arXiv:2610.00330v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-term object search requires learning where objects usually appear from repeated but uneven observations of a changing environment. We formulate...