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cs.RO2026
Embodied Agents Take Control: Minimal-Interface Zero-Shot Agents Rival Industrial-Scale Policies in Vision-and-Language Navigation
Jian Zhou, Xunyi Zhao, Gengze Zhou +4
Autonomous embodied agents must sustain a long decision-making loop of perceiving, acting, verifying, and self-correcting. In trained end-to-end policies and hand-designed workflow…
cs.CV2026
Ask When It Pays: Cost-Aware Open-Ended Interaction for Instance Goal Navigation
Xunyi Zhao, Sihao Lin, Gengze Zhou +5
Instance Goal Navigation (IGN) requires an embodied agent to find a specific object instance among distractors from an under-specified natural-language description. Such ambiguity…
cs.RO2026
TTT-VLA: Test-Time Latent Prompt Optimization for Vision-Language-Action Models
Wenbo Zhang, Jianxiong Li, Shuai Yang +4
Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models trained on large-scale data have made remarkable progress, but they remain vulnerable to distribution shifts at deployment time. Recent VLA mode…