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GLST: Global-Local Spatio-Temporal Memory Decomposition Framework for Online Chained-Goal Navigation
Yousef Liang, Ryan Ardalan, Yarden Goraly +6
Autonomous navigation in real-world environments often requires long-horizon operation under partial observability and evolving goals. Existing mapless navigation approaches predom…
Structured World-State Reasoning for Agentic Robotic Search
Finley R. Holt, Luis A. Pabon, John Irvin Alora +2
Long-horizon robotic search must resolve natural language against heterogeneous, incomplete, and often ambiguous evidence: textual information, prior maps, and observations arrivin…
A Scene Language Model for Open-Vocabulary Scene Mapping
Adam Lilja, Fabio Hübel, Siming He +6
Open-vocabulary 3D scene mapping aims to build a persistent representation of the objects in an environment. Existing systems typically rely on engineered mapping pipelines to asso…
Advances, challenges, and opportunities for legged robots
Jonas Frey, Matías Mattamala, Hae-Won Park +5
Humanoid and quadrupedal robots have the potential to revolutionize the way we work, interact, and coexist with intelligent machines. To understand their effects on society and how…
FARM: Find Anything using Relational Spatial Memory
Siming He, Leo Huang, Adam Lilja +6
Robots operating in homes, warehouses, and other object-rich environments need memory systems that can find specific object instances on demand. Object-level memory alone is often…
EgoHTR: Egocentric 4D Demonstrations of Human Terrain Traversal
Alex Brandes, Haig Conti Georges Sajelian, Manthan Patel +11
Deploying humanoid robots in unstructured terrain remains an open problem. While classic reinforcement learning struggles with the sheer complexity of real-world interactions, more…
DigiForest: Digital Analytics and Robotics for Sustainable Forestry
Marco Camurri, Enrico Tomelleri, Matías Mattamala +18
Covering one third of Earth's land surface, forests are vital to global biodiversity, climate regulation, and human well-being. In Europe, forests and woodlands reach approximately…
WildOS: Open-Vocabulary Object Search in the Wild
Hardik Shah, Erica Tevere, Deegan Atha +6
Autonomous navigation in complex, unstructured outdoor environments requires robots to operate over long ranges without prior maps and limited depth sensing. In such settings, rely…
GrandTour: A Legged Robotics Dataset in the Wild for Multi-Modal Perception and State Estimation
Turcan Tuna, Jonas Frey, Frank Fu +5
Accurate state estimation and multi-modal perception are prerequisites for autonomous legged robots in complex, large-scale environments. To date, no large-scale public legged-robo…
Self-Supervised Bootstrapping of Action-Predictive Embodied Reasoning
Milan Ganai, Katie Luo, Jonas Frey +2
Embodied Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning has significantly enhanced Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, yet current methods rely on rigid templates to specify reasoning primitive…
DeFM: Learning Foundation Representations from Depth for Robotics
Manthan Patel, Jonas Frey, Mayank Mittal +5
Depth sensors are widely deployed across robotic platforms, and advances in fast, high-fidelity depth simulation have enabled robotic policies trained on depth observations to achi…
VLD: Visual Language Goal Distance for Reinforcement Learning Navigation
Lazar Milikic, Manthan Patel, Jonas Frey
Training end-to-end policies from image data to directly predict navigation actions for robotic systems has proven inherently difficult. Existing approaches often suffer from eithe…
Kleinkram: Open Robotic Data Management
Cyrill Püntener, Johann Schwabe, Dominique Garmier +2
We introduce Kleinkram, a free and open-source system designed to solve the challenge of managing massive, unstructured robotic datasets. Designed as a modular, on-premises cloud s…
GaussGym: An open-source real-to-sim framework for learning locomotion from pixels
Alejandro Escontrela, Justin Kerr, Arthur Allshire +4
We present a novel approach for photorealistic robot simulation that integrates 3D Gaussian Splatting as a drop-in renderer within vectorized physics simulators such as IsaacGym. T…
NaviTrace: Evaluating Embodied Navigation of Vision-Language Models
Tim Windecker, Manthan Patel, Moritz Reuss +5
Vision-language models demonstrate unprecedented performance and generalization across a wide range of tasks and scenarios. Integrating these foundation models into robotic navigat…
Building Forest Inventories with Autonomous Legged Robots -- System, Lessons, and Challenges Ahead
Matías Mattamala, Nived Chebrolu, Jonas Frey +5
Legged robots are increasingly being adopted in industries such as oil, gas, mining, nuclear, and agriculture. However, new challenges exist when moving into natural, less-structur…
Risk-Guided Diffusion: Toward Deploying Robot Foundation Models in Space, Where Failure Is Not An Option
Rohan Thakker, Adarsh Patnaik, Vince Kurtz +10
Safe, reliable navigation in extreme, unfamiliar terrain is required for future robotic space exploration missions. Recent generative-AI methods learn semantically aware navigation…
DAPPER: Discriminability-Aware Policy-to-Policy Preference-Based Reinforcement Learning for Query-Efficient Robot Skill Acquisition
Yuki Kadokawa, Jonas Frey, Takahiro Miki +2
Preference-based Reinforcement Learning (PbRL) enables policy learning through simple queries comparing trajectories from a single policy. While human responses to these queries ma…
Learned Perceptive Forward Dynamics Model for Safe and Platform-aware Robotic Navigation
Pascal Roth, Jonas Frey, Cesar Cadena +1
Ensuring safe navigation in complex environments requires accurate real-time traversability assessment and understanding of environmental interactions relative to the robot`s capab…
Boxi: Design Decisions in the Context of Algorithmic Performance for Robotics
Jonas Frey, Turcan Tuna, Lanke Frank Tarimo Fu +8
Achieving robust autonomy in mobile robots operating in complex and unstructured environments requires a multimodal sensor suite capable of capturing diverse and complementary info…
Diffusion Based Robust LiDAR Place Recognition
Benjamin Krummenacher, Jonas Frey, Turcan Tuna +2
Mobile robots on construction sites require accurate pose estimation to perform autonomous surveying and inspection missions. Localization in construction sites is a particularly c…
Holistic Fusion: Task- and Setup-Agnostic Robot Localization and State Estimation with Factor Graphs
Julian Nubert, Turcan Tuna, Jonas Frey +4
Seamless operation of mobile robots in challenging environments requires low-latency local motion estimation and accurate global localization. While most sensor-fusion approaches a…
RoadRunner M&M -- Learning Multi-range Multi-resolution Traversability Maps for Autonomous Off-road Navigation
Manthan Patel, Jonas Frey, Deegan Atha +3
Autonomous robot navigation in off-road environments requires a comprehensive understanding of the terrain geometry and traversability. The degraded perceptual conditions and spars…
Identifying Terrain Physical Parameters from Vision -- Towards Physical-Parameter-Aware Locomotion and Navigation
Jiaqi Chen, Jonas Frey, Ruyi Zhou +3
Identifying the physical properties of the surrounding environment is essential for robotic locomotion and navigation to deal with non-geometric hazards, such as slippery and defor…