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Robotic manipulation in unstructured environments requires reliable execution under diverse conditions, yet many state-of-the-art systems still struggle with high-dimensional action spaces, sparse rewards, and slow generalization beyond…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Leonidas Askianakis , Aleksandr Artemov

Large Language Model (LLM) agents have demonstrated remarkable proficiency in learned tasks, yet they often struggle to adapt to non-stationary environments with feedback. While In-Context Learning and external memory offer some…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Lu Yang , Zelai Xu , Minyang Xie , Jiaxuan Gao , Zhao Shok , Yu Wang , Yi Wu

Embodied navigation requires agents to integrate perception, reasoning, and action for robust interaction in complex 3D environments. Existing approaches often suffer from incoherent and unstable reasoning traces that hinder generalization…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Qingxiang Liu , Ting Huang , Zeyu Zhang , Hao Tang

Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown inspiring achievements in constructing autonomous agents that rely on language descriptions as inputs. However, it remains unclear how well LLMs can function as few-shot or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Zixia Jia , Mengmeng Wang , Baichen Tong , Song-Chun Zhu , Zilong Zheng

Learning a perception and reasoning module for robotic assistants to plan steps to perform complex tasks based on natural language instructions often requires large free-form language annotations, especially for short high-level…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Taewoong Kim , Byeonghwi Kim , Jonghyun Choi

In the context of visual navigation, the capacity to map a novel environment is necessary for an agent to exploit its observation history in the considered place and efficiently reach known goals. This ability can be associated with spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Pierre Marza , Laetitia Matignon , Olivier Simonin , Christian Wolf

Semantic maps allow a robot to reason about its surroundings to fulfill tasks such as navigating known environments, finding specific objects, and exploring unmapped areas. Traditional mapping approaches provide accurate geometric…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Felix Igelbrink , Lennart Niecksch , Marian Renz , Martin Günther , Martin Atzmueller

What does a world model learn from physical exploration, without any linguistic supervision? We argue the answer is organized by a single principle: the geometric structure of the physical world. Training a VAE-based world model on random…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Jiayi Fang

This paper presents a novel approach for the Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) task in continuous 3D environments, which requires an autonomous agent to follow natural language instructions in unseen environments. Existing end-to-end…

Embodied navigation is a fundamental capability of embodied intelligence, enabling robots to move and interact within physical environments. However, existing navigation tasks primarily focus on predefined object navigation or instruction…

Visual navigation is a fundamental capability for autonomous home-assistance robots, enabling long-horizon tasks such as object search. While recent methods have leveraged Large Language Models (LLMs) to incorporate commonsense reasoning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Teng Wang , Xinxin Zhao , Wenzhe Cai , Changyin Sun

Enhancing the spatial perception capabilities of mobile robots is crucial for achieving embodied Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN). Although significant progress has been made in simulated environments, directly transferring these…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Qianqian Bai , Zhongpu Chen , Ling Luo , Huaming Du , Yuqian Lei , Ziyun Jiao

Learning long-horizon embodied behaviors from synthetic data remains challenging because generated scenes are often physically implausible, language-driven programs frequently "succeed" without satisfying task semantics, and high-level…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Yaru Liu , Ao-bo Wang , Nanyang Ye

Humans can quickly learn new behaviors by leveraging background world knowledge. In contrast, agents trained with reinforcement learning (RL) typically learn behaviors from scratch. We thus propose a novel approach that uses the vast…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-24 William Chen , Oier Mees , Aviral Kumar , Sergey Levine

This paper focuses on embodied task planning, where an agent acquires visual observations from the environment and executes atomic actions to accomplish a given task. Although recent Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have achieved impressive…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Peiran Xu , Jiaqi Zheng , Yadong Mu

Embodied AI aims to develop robots that can \textit{understand} and execute human language instructions, as well as communicate in natural languages. On this front, we study the task of generating highly detailed navigational instructions…

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

Embodied task planning requires agents to execute long-horizon, goal-directed actions in complex 3D environments, where success depends on both immediate perception and accumulated experience across tasks. However, most existing LLM-based…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Xiaoyu Ma , Lianyu Hu , Wenbing Tang , Zixuan Hu , Zeqin Liao , Zhizhen Wu , Yang Liu

End-to-end autonomous driving methods built on vision language models (VLMs) have undergone rapid development driven by their universal visual understanding and strong reasoning capabilities obtained from the large-scale pretraining.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Peizheng Li , Zhenghao Zhang , David Holtz , Hang Yu , Yutong Yang , Yuzhi Lai , Rui Song , Andreas Geiger , Andreas Zell

Navigation and manipulation are core capabilities in Embodied AI, yet training agents with these capabilities in the real world faces high costs and time complexity. Therefore, sim-to-real transfer has emerged as a key approach, yet the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Lik Hang Kenny Wong , Xueyang Kang , Kaixin Bai , Jianwei Zhang

Embodied visual navigation remains a challenging task, as agents must explore unknown environments with limited knowledge. Existing zero-shot studies have shown that incorporating memory mechanisms to support goal-directed behavior can…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Ningnan Wang , Weihuang Chen , Liming Chen , Haoxuan Ji , Zhongyu Guo , Xuchong Zhang , Hongbin Sun