arXiv AI July 10, 2026 By Erik Jagnandan, Mulugeta Haile, Gregory Barber, Pratik Chaudhari

Time-to-Collision Based Dynamic Obstacle Avoidance Using Pretrained Vision Models for Robots in Unstructured Environments

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.

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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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RVN-Bench: A Benchmark for Reactive Visual Navigation

arXiv:2603. 03953v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Safe visual navigation is critical for indoor mobile robots operating in cluttered environments.

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Robostral Navigate

arXiv:2607. 20785v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deploying navigation systems at scale requires a recipe that minimizes sensor assumptions, generalizes across robot embodiments, and trains efficiently.

By Arjun Majumdar, Avinash Sooriyarachchi, Benjamin Tibi, Chris Bamford, Elliot Chane-Sane, Guillaume Lample, Khyathi Raghavi Chandu, Ludovic Ho Fuh, Mathieu Poiree, Olivier Duchenne, Rosalie Millner, Srijan Mishra, Theo Cachet, Thomas Chabal

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Jul 21

Predictive Training with Latent Imagination for Visual Quadruped Navigation

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.

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APPLV: Adaptive Planner Parameter Learning from Vision-Language-Action Model

arXiv:2603. 08862v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Autonomous navigation in highly constrained environments remains challenging for mobile robots.

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