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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

The paper investigates using general-purpose language models as autonomous embodied agents for zero-shot vision-and-language navigation, showing that with only a monocular RGB came…

cs.RO2026

SpatialAnt: Autonomous Zero-Shot Robot Navigation via Active Scene Reconstruction and Visual Anticipation

Jiwen Zhang, Xiangyu Shi, Siyuan Wang +3

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) has recently benefited from Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), enabling zero-shot navigation. While recent exploration-based zero-shot m…

cs.RO2026

Decoupled Action Expert: Confining Task Knowledge to the Conditioning Pathway

Jian Zhou, Sihao Lin, Shuai Fu +3

Many recent Vision-Language-Action models employ diffusion or flow-matching backbones with hundreds of millions of parameters for action generation. However, unlike image synthesis…

cs.RO2026

One Agent to Guide Them All: Empowering MLLMs for Vision-and-Language Navigation via Explicit World Representation

Zerui Li, Hongpei Zheng, Fangguo Zhao +5

A navigable agent needs to understand both high-level semantic instructions and precise spatial perceptions. Building navigation agents centered on Multimodal Large Language Models…

cs.RO2025

Fast-SmartWay: Panoramic-Free End-to-End Zero-Shot Vision-and-Language Navigation

Xiangyu Shi, Zerui Li, Yanyuan Qiao +1

Recent advances in Vision-and-Language Navigation in Continuous Environments (VLN-CE) have leveraged multimodal large language models (MLLMs) to achieve zero-shot navigation. Howev…

cs.RO2025

SmartWay: Enhanced Waypoint Prediction and Backtracking for Zero-Shot Vision-and-Language Navigation

Xiangyu Shi, Zerui Li, Wenqi Lyu +4

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) in continuous environments requires agents to interpret natural language instructions while navigating unconstrained 3D spaces. Existing VLN-CE…