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Embodied navigation requires robots to understand and interact with the environment based on given tasks. Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) is an embodied navigation task, where a robot navigates within a previously seen and unseen…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Muraleekrishna Gopinathan , Jumana Abu-Khalaf , David Suter , Martin Masek

Navigation is a fundamental capability in embodied AI, representing the intelligence required to perceive and interact within physical environments following language instructions. Despite significant progress in large Vision-Language…

Intelligent embodied agents (e.g. robots) need to perform complex semantic tasks in unfamiliar environments. Among many skills that the agents need to possess, building and maintaining a semantic map of the environment is most crucial in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Sonia Raychaudhuri , Angel X. Chang

Spatial reasoning is an essential problem in embodied AI research. Efforts to enhance spatial reasoning abilities through supplementary spatial data and fine-tuning have proven limited and ineffective when addressing complex embodied tasks,…

This thesis introduces "Embodied Spatial Intelligence" to address the challenge of creating robots that can perceive and act in the real world based on natural language instructions. To bridge the gap between Large Language Models (LLMs)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Jiading Fang

This paper addresses the challenge of fine-grained alignment in Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) tasks, where robots navigate realistic 3D environments based on natural language instructions. Current approaches use contrastive learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Yuhang Song , Mario Gianni , Chenguang Yang , Kunyang Lin , Te-Chuan Chiu , Anh Nguyen , Chun-Yi Lee

A core challenge in AI-guided autonomy is enabling agents to navigate realistically and effectively in previously unseen environments based on natural language commands. We propose UAV-VLN, a novel end-to-end Vision-Language Navigation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Pranav Saxena , Nishant Raghuvanshi , Neena Goveas

The recent rapid development of Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) has indicated their potential for embodied tasks.However, the critical skill of spatial understanding in embodied environments has not been thoroughly evaluated, leaving…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Mengfei Du , Binhao Wu , Zejun Li , Xuanjing Huang , Zhongyu Wei

Recent advances in generative modeling have spurred a resurgence in the field of Embodied Artificial Intelligence (EAI). EAI systems typically deploy large language models to physical systems capable of interacting with their environment.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Selma Wanna , Fabian Parra , Robert Valner , Karl Kruusamäe , Mitch Pryor

Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have spurred numerous attempts to apply these technologies to embodied tasks, particularly focusing on high-level task planning and task decomposition. To further explore this area, we…

Embodied Artificial Intelligence (Embodied AI) is crucial for achieving Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and serves as a foundation for various applications (e.g., intelligent mechatronics systems, smart manufacturing) that bridge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Yang Liu , Weixing Chen , Yongjie Bai , Xiaodan Liang , Guanbin Li , Wen Gao , Liang Lin

Vision-Language-Action models (VLAs) represent a significant frontier in embodied intelligence, aiming to bridge digital knowledge with physical-world interaction. Despite their remarkable performance, foundational VLAs are hindered by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Zhaoshu Yu , Bo Wang , Pengpeng Zeng , Haonan Zhang , Ji Zhang , Zheng Wang , Lianli Gao , Jingkuan Song , Nicu Sebe , Heng Tao Shen

Vision-language navigation is a task that requires an agent to follow instructions to navigate in environments. It becomes increasingly crucial in the field of embodied AI, with potential applications in autonomous navigation, search and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Dong An , Hanqing Wang , Wenguan Wang , Zun Wang , Yan Huang , Keji He , Liang Wang

Embodied AI research is increasingly moving beyond single-task, single-environment policy learning toward multi-task, multi-scene, and multi-model settings. This shift substantially increases the engineering overhead and development time…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Xueyang Zhou , Yihan Sun , Xijie Gong , Guiyao Tie , Pan Zhou , Lichao Sun , Yongchao Chen

In this paper, we argue that the future of Artificial Intelligence research resides in two keywords: integration and embodiment. We support this claim by analyzing the recent advances of the field. Regarding integration, we note that the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-09-19 Clément Moulin-Frier , Jordi-Ysard Puigbò , Xerxes D. Arsiwalla , Martì Sanchez-Fibla , Paul F. M. J. Verschure

The remarkable progress of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) has attracted increasing attention to extend them to physical entities like legged robot. This typically requires MLLMs to not only grasp multimodal understanding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Gen Luo , Ganlin Yang , Ziyang Gong , Guanzhou Chen , Haonan Duan , Erfei Cui , Ronglei Tong , Zhi Hou , Tianyi Zhang , Zhe Chen , Shenglong Ye , Lewei Lu , Jingbo Wang , Wenhai Wang , Jifeng Dai , Yu Qiao , Rongrong Ji , Xizhou Zhu

Visual target navigation is a critical capability for autonomous robots operating in unknown environments, particularly in human-robot interaction scenarios. While classical and learning-based methods have shown promise, most existing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Bangguo Yu , Qihao Yuan , Kailai Li , Hamidreza Kasaei , Ming Cao

Recent advancements in 3D reconstruction and neural rendering have enhanced the creation of high-quality digital assets, yet existing methods struggle to generalize across varying object shapes, textures, and occlusions. While Next Best…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Zhenghao Qi , Shenghai Yuan , Fen Liu , Haozhi Cao , Tianchen Deng , Jianfei Yang , Lihua Xie

Embodied AI models often employ off the shelf vision backbones like CLIP to encode their visual observations. Although such general purpose representations encode rich syntactic and semantic information about the scene, much of this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Ainaz Eftekhar , Kuo-Hao Zeng , Jiafei Duan , Ali Farhadi , Ani Kembhavi , Ranjay Krishna

Embodied planning requires agents to make coherent multi-step decisions based on dynamic visual observations and natural language goals. While recent vision-language models (VLMs) excel at static perception tasks, they struggle with the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Di Wu , Jiaxin Fan , Junzhe Zang , Guanbo Wang , Wei Yin , Wenhao Li , Bo Jin