arXiv:2607. 10991v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As mobile robots become more integrated into everyday human environments, social robot navigation is becoming essential for ensuring human comfort, safety, and trust.
By Ali Ahmadi, Hamed Rahimi, Adrien Jacquet Cretides, Marie Samson, Mahdi Khoramshahi, Mohamed Chetouani
arXiv:2608. 10056v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Following a target human in crowded environments involves an inherent conflict between staying close to the target and navigating safely among surrounding pedestrians and obstacles.
By Shiting Gong, Jianpeng Yao, Jinfeng Wang, Marco Pavone, Jiachen Li
arXiv:2606. 12603v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autonomous long-horizon sidewalk navigation is essential for micro-mobility applications such as robotic food delivery and assistive electronic wheelchairs.
By Honglin He, Zhizheng Liu, Yukai Ma, Bolei Zhou
arXiv:2503. 14229v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) has been studied mainly in either discrete or continuous spaces, with little attention to dynamic, crowded environments.
By Yifei Dong, Fengyi Wu, Qi He, Lingdong Kong, Heng Li, Minghan Li, Zebang Cheng, Yuxuan Zhou, Jingdong Sun, Qi Dai, Alexander G Hauptmann, Zhi-Qi Cheng
arXiv:2606. 19370v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Self-play reinforcement learning has recently emerged as a way to train driving policies without any human data.
By Daphne Cornelisse, Julian Hunt, Zixu Zhang, Wa\"el Doulazmi, Kevin Joseph, Jaime Fern\'andez Fisac, Eugene Vinitsky
arXiv:2606. 32027v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reward design remains a central bottleneck for autonomous robot policy improvement, especially in long-horizon manipulation tasks where sparse success labels provide too little signal and binary preferences collapse many competing notions of quality into one ambiguous signal.
By Marcel Torne, Anubha Mahajan, Abhijnya Bhat, Chelsea Finn