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If a robotic agent wants to exploit symbolic planning techniques to achieve some goal, it must be able to properly ground an abstract planning domain in the environment in which it operates. However, if the environment is initially unknown…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Leonardo Lamanna , Luciano Serafini , Alessandro Saetti , Alfonso Gerevini , Paolo Traverso

Embodied AI Agents are quickly becoming important and common tools in society. These embodied agents should be able to learn about and accomplish a wide range of user goals and preferences efficiently and robustly. Large Language Models…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Rachel Ma , Jingyi Qu , Andreea Bobu , Dylan Hadfield-Menell

The EmbodiedQA is a task of training an embodied agent by intelligently navigating in a simulated environment and gathering visual information to answer questions. Existing approaches fail to explicitly model the mental imagery function of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Juncheng Li , Siliang Tang , Fei Wu , Yueting Zhuang

Embodied AI has been recently gaining attention as it aims to foster the development of autonomous and intelligent agents. In this paper, we devise a novel embodied setting in which an agent needs to explore a previously unknown environment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Roberto Bigazzi , Federico Landi , Marcella Cornia , Silvia Cascianelli , Lorenzo Baraldi , Rita Cucchiara

The ability to autonomously explore and navigate a physical space is a fundamental requirement for virtually any mobile autonomous agent, from household robotic vacuums to autonomous vehicles. Traditional SLAM-based approaches for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-02-18 William Qi , Ravi Teja Mullapudi , Saurabh Gupta , Deva Ramanan

We present an embodied robotic system with an LLM-driven agent-orchestration architecture for autonomous household object management. The system integrates memory-augmented task planning, enabling robots to execute high-level user commands…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Marc Glocker , Peter Hönig , Matthias Hirschmanner , Markus Vincze

AI agents today are mostly siloed - they either retrieve and reason over vast amount of digital information and knowledge obtained online; or interact with the physical world through embodied perception, planning and action - but rarely…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Yining Hong , Rui Sun , Bingxuan Li , Xingcheng Yao , Maxine Wu , Alexander Chien , Da Yin , Ying Nian Wu , Zhecan James Wang , Kai-Wei Chang

Humans use their knowledge of common house layouts obtained from previous experiences to predict nearby rooms while navigating in new environments. This greatly helps them navigate previously unseen environments and locate their target…

The development of embodied agents that can communicate with humans in natural language has gained increasing interest over the last years, as it facilitates the diffusion of robotic platforms in human-populated environments. As a step…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Roberto Bigazzi , Marcella Cornia , Silvia Cascianelli , Lorenzo Baraldi , Rita Cucchiara

Language models (LMs) have demonstrated their capability in possessing commonsense knowledge of the physical world, a crucial aspect of performing tasks in everyday life. However, it remains unclear **whether LMs have the capacity to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Bill Yuchen Lin , Chengsong Huang , Qian Liu , Wenda Gu , Sam Sommerer , Xiang Ren

In this work, we focus on the problem of grounding language by training an agent to follow a set of natural language instructions and navigate to a target object in an environment. The agent receives visual information through raw pixels…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Akilesh B , Abhishek Sinha , Mausoom Sarkar , Balaji Krishnamurthy

An embodied task such as embodied question answering (EmbodiedQA), requires an agent to explore the environment and collect clues to answer a given question that related with specific objects in the scene. The solution of such task usually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Yang Wu , Shirui Feng , Guanbin Li , Liang Lin

This work presents an embodied agent that can adapt its semantic segmentation network to new indoor environments in a fully autonomous way. Because semantic segmentation networks fail to generalize well to unseen environments, the agent…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-05 René Zurbrügg , Hermann Blum , Cesar Cadena , Roland Siegwart , Lukas Schmid

Embodied reasoning is inherently viewpoint-dependent: what is visible, occluded, or reachable depends critically on where the agent stands. However, existing spatial memory systems for embodied agents typically store either multi-view…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-17 JooHyun Park , HyeongYeop Kang

Learned world models summarize an agent's experience to facilitate learning complex behaviors. While learning world models from high-dimensional sensory inputs is becoming feasible through deep learning, there are many potential ways for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-18 Danijar Hafner , Timothy Lillicrap , Jimmy Ba , Mohammad Norouzi

Reinforcement learning (RL) agents typically learn tabula rasa, without prior knowledge of the world. However, if initialized with knowledge of high-level subgoals and transitions between subgoals, RL agents could utilize this Abstract…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Kolby Nottingham , Prithviraj Ammanabrolu , Alane Suhr , Yejin Choi , Hannaneh Hajishirzi , Sameer Singh , Roy Fox

Recently there has been a rising interest in training agents, embodied in virtual environments, to perform language-directed tasks by deep reinforcement learning. In this paper, we propose a simple but effective neural language grounding…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-09-06 Haonan Yu , Xiaochen Lian , Haichao Zhang , Wei Xu

In the real world, linguistic agents are also embodied agents: they perceive and act in the physical world. The notion of Language Grounding questions the interactions between language and embodiment: how do learning agents connect or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-15 Cédric Colas , Ahmed Akakzia , Pierre-Yves Oudeyer , Mohamed Chetouani , Olivier Sigaud

Humans can perform complex tasks with long-term objectives by planning, reasoning, and forecasting outcomes of actions. For embodied agents to achieve similar capabilities, they must gain knowledge of the environment transferable to novel…

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