most citedSocialNav: Training Human-Inspired Foundation Model for Socially-Aware Embodied Navigation

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cs.AI2026

ABot-ER: Unified Embodied Reasoning through Agentic Data-Model Co-Evolution

Qiuyu Ding, Heng-Da Xu, Changda Xia +14

We introduce ABot Embodied Reasoning (ABot-ER), a unified embodied reasoning foundation model that breaks the tension between breadth and depth in embodied reasoning. Embodied inte…

cs.AI2026

OPERA: Operator-residual feedback for reliable autonomous optical experiments with language-model agents

Ning Xu, Xiang Zheng, Fuqiang Zhong +4

Autonomous agents choose actions using scores that may not reflect experimental success. We developed OPERA, an operator-residual framework for optical experiments. It represents e…

cs.CV2026

ABot-N1: Toward a General Visual Language Navigation Foundation Model

Ruiyan Gong, Yingnan Guo, Junjun Hu +43

Visual Language Navigation foundation models aim to unify deep reasoning for grounded spatial decisions with broad versatility for diverse embodied tasks. Current approaches typica…

cs.AI2026

ABot-AgentOS: A General Robotic Agent OS with Lifelong Multi-modal Memory

Jiayi Tian, Shiao Liu, Yuting Xu +30

Recent VLM and VLA systems have improved robotic perception and action prediction, yet long-horizon embodied agents still require a general runtime layer for reasoning, memory, too…

cs.RO2026

POINav: Benchmarking and Enhancing Final-Meters Arrival in Real-World Vision-Language Navigation

Ruiyan Gong, Meisheng Zhang, Yuxiang Zhao +12

Real-world navigation is fundamentally driven by Points of Interest (POIs), yet reaching a precise POI remains a critical "final-meters" challenge. Existing Vision-Language Navigat…

cs.RO2026

AsyncShield: A Plug-and-Play Edge Adapter for Asynchronous Cloud-based VLA Navigation

Kai Yang, Zedong Chu, Yingnan Guo +6

While Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have been demonstrated possessing strong zero-shot generalization for robot control, their massive parameter sizes typically necessitate c…

cs.CV2026

Explore Like Humans: Autonomous Exploration with Online SG-Memo Construction for Embodied Agents

Xu Chen, Shichao Xie, Zhining Gu +7

Constructing structured spatial memory is essential for enabling long-horizon reasoning in complex embodied navigation tasks. Current memory construction predominantly relies on a…

cs.CV2026

E2E-GMNER: End-to-End Generative Grounded Multimodal Named Entity Recognition

Meng Zhang, Jinzhong Ning, Xiaolong Wu +2

Grounded Multimodal Named Entity Recognition (GMNER) aims to jointly identify named entity mentions in text, predict their semantic types, and ground each entity to a corresponding…

cs.RO2026

ABot-N0: Technical Report on the VLA Foundation Model for Versatile Embodied Navigation

Zedong Chu, Shichao Xie, Xiaolong Wu +41

Embodied navigation has long been fragmented by task-specific architectures. We introduce ABot-N0, a unified Vision-Language-Action (VLA) foundation model that achieves a ``Grand U…

cs.CV2026

MerNav: A Highly Generalizable Memory-Execute-Review Framework for Zero-Shot Object Goal Navigation

Dekang Qi, Shuang Zeng, Xinyuan Chang +4

Visual Language Navigation (VLN) is one of the fundamental capabilities for embodied intelligence and a critical challenge that urgently needs to be addressed. However, existing me…

cs.CV2025

Nav- Dual-Relation Reasoning for Generalizable Open-Vocabulary Object-Goal Navigation

Wentao Xiang, Haokang Zhang, Tianhang Yang +10

Object-goal navigation in open-vocabulary settings requires agents to locate novel objects in unseen environments, yet existing approaches suffer from opaque decision-making proces…

cs.CV2025

AstraNav-World: World Model for Foresight Control and Consistency

Jintao Chen, Junjun Hu, Haochen Bai +11

Embodied navigation in open, dynamic environments demands accurate foresight of how the world will evolve and how actions will unfold over time. We propose AstraNav-World, an end-t…

cs.RO2025

NavForesee: A Unified Vision-Language World Model for Hierarchical Planning and Dual-Horizon Navigation Prediction

Fei Liu, Shichao Xie, Minghua Luo +4

Embodied navigation for long-horizon tasks, guided by complex natural language instructions, remains a formidable challenge in artificial intelligence. Existing agents often strugg…

cs.CV2025

SpatialGeo:Boosting Spatial Reasoning in Multimodal LLMs via Geometry-Semantics Fusion

Jiajie Guo, Qingpeng Zhu, Jin Zeng +3

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have achieved significant progress in image and language tasks due to the strong reasoning capability of large language models (LLMs). Neve…

cs.RO2025★ 1 cited

SocialNav: Training Human-Inspired Foundation Model for Socially-Aware Embodied Navigation

Ziyi Chen, Yingnan Guo, Zedong Chu +14

Embodied navigation that adheres to social norms remains an open research challenge. Our SocialNav is a foundational model for socially-aware navigation with a hierarchical "brain-…

cs.RO2025

CE-Nav: Flow-Guided Reinforcement Refinement for Cross-Embodiment Local Navigation

Kai Yang, Tianlin Zhang, Zhengbo Wang +4

Generalizing local navigation policies across diverse robot morphologies is a critical challenge. Progress is often hindered by the need for costly and embodiment-specific data, th…

cs.CV2025

JanusVLN: Decoupling Semantics and Spatiality with Dual Implicit Memory for Vision-Language Navigation

Shuang Zeng, Dekang Qi, Xinyuan Chang +7

Vision-and-Language Navigation requires an embodied agent to navigate through unseen environments, guided by natural language instructions and a continuous video stream. Recent adv…