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We consider the problem of building an assistive robotic system that can help humans in daily household cleanup tasks. Creating such an autonomous system in real-world environments is inherently quite challenging, as a general solution may…

Interactions with articulated objects are a challenging but important task for mobile robots. To tackle this challenge, we propose a novel closed-loop control pipeline, which integrates manipulation priors from affordance estimation with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Giulio Schiavi , Paula Wulkop , Giuseppe Rizzi , Lionel Ott , Roland Siegwart , Jen Jen Chung

Benefiting from language flexibility and compositionality, humans naturally intend to use language to command an embodied agent for complex tasks such as navigation and object manipulation. In this work, we aim to fill the blank of the last…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Kaizhi Zheng , Xiaotong Chen , Odest Chadwicke Jenkins , Xin Eric Wang

Selection of occluded objects is a challenging problem in virtual reality, even more so if multiple objects are involved. With the advent of new artificial intelligence technologies, we explore the possibility of leveraging large language…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Junlong Chen , Jens Grubert , Per Ola Kristensson

Complex manipulation tasks, such as rearrangement planning of numerous objects, are combinatorially hard problems. Existing algorithms either do not scale well or assume a great deal of prior knowledge about the environment, and few offer…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Vasileios Vasilopoulos , Yiannis Kantaros , George J. Pappas , Daniel E. Koditschek

Open-vocabulary mobile manipulation (OVMM) that involves the handling of novel and unseen objects across different workspaces remains a significant challenge for real-world robotic applications. In this paper, we propose a novel…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Shen Tan , Dong Zhou , Xiangyu Shao , Junqiao Wang , Guanghui Sun

Visual navigation tasks are critical for household service robots. As these tasks become increasingly complex, effective communication and collaboration among multiple robots become imperative to ensure successful completion. In recent…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Pengying Wu , Yao Mu , Kangjie Zhou , Ji Ma , Junting Chen , Chang Liu

We introduce OceanGym, the first comprehensive benchmark for ocean underwater embodied agents, designed to advance AI in one of the most demanding real-world environments. Unlike terrestrial or aerial domains, underwater settings present…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Yida Xue , Mingjun Mao , Xiangyuan Ru , Yuqi Zhu , Baochang Ren , Shuofei Qiao , Mengru Wang , Shumin Deng , Xinyu An , Ningyu Zhang , Ying Chen , Huajun Chen

Object navigation in open-world environments remains a formidable and pervasive challenge for robotic systems, particularly when it comes to executing long-horizon tasks that require both open-world object detection and high-level task…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Daojie Peng , Jiahang Cao , Qiang Zhang , Jun Ma

The capability to efficiently search for objects in complex environments is fundamental for many real-world robot applications. Recent advances in open-vocabulary vision models have resulted in semantically-informed object navigation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Finn Lukas Busch , Timon Homberger , Jesús Ortega-Peimbert , Quantao Yang , Olov Andersson

Recent advances in artificial intelligence have been driven by the presence of increasingly realistic and complex simulated environments. However, many of the existing environments provide either unrealistic visuals, inaccurate physics, low…

Recent advances in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have enabled the development of mobile agents that can understand visual inputs and follow user instructions, unlocking new possibilities for automating complex tasks on mobile…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Ning Li , Xiangmou Qu , Jiamu Zhou , Jun Wang , Muning Wen , Kounianhua Du , Xingyu Lou , Qiuying Peng , Jun Wang , Weinan Zhang

Mobile agents are essential for automating tasks in complex and dynamic mobile environments. As foundation models evolve, the demands for agents that can adapt in real-time and process multimodal data have grown. This survey provides a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Biao Wu , Yanda Li , Zhiwei Zhang , Yunchao Wei , Meng Fang , Ling Chen

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

Augmented Reality (AR) offers powerful visualization capabilities for industrial robot training, yet current interfaces remain predominantly static, failing to account for learners' diverse cognitive profiles. In this paper, we present an…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Nicolas Leins , Jana Gonnermann-Müller , Malte Teichmann , Sebastian Pokutta

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) tasks require an agent to navigate through the environment based on language instructions. In this paper, we aim to solve two key challenges in this task: utilizing multilingual instructions for improved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Jialu Li , Hao Tan , Mohit Bansal

This paper presents a mini-review of the current state of research in mobile manipulators with variable levels of autonomy, emphasizing their associated challenges and application environments. The need for mobile manipulators in different…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Cesar Alan Contreras , Alireza Rastegarpanah , Rustam Stolkin , Manolis Chiou

Artificial intelligence has undergone immense growth and maturation in recent years, though autonomous systems have traditionally struggled when fielded in diverse and previously unknown environments. DARPA is seeking to change that with…

Active recognition, which allows intelligent agents to explore observations for better recognition performance, serves as a prerequisite for various embodied AI tasks, such as grasping, navigation and room arrangements. Given the evolving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Lei Fan , Jianxiong Zhou , Xiaoying Xing , Ying Wu

The pursuit of general-purpose embodied agents is hindered by fragmented evaluation protocols that isolate navigation skills and fixate on specific robot morphologies, failing to reflect real-world scenarios where agents must orchestrate…