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arXiv:2607. 18200v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robots in cluttered indoor spaces often fail not because they cannot generate collision-free paths, but because a fixed safety margin is mis-calibrated: conservative margins cause detours and timeouts, while permissive margins lead to near-boundary shortcuts under perception bias.

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Can Vision Foundation Models Navigate? Zero-Shot Real-World Evaluation and Lessons Learned

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EffiNav: Fusing Depth and Vision-Language for Efficient Object Goal Navigation

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