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StopWatch: Goal Grounding for Object-goal Navigation
Oct 16, 2026Xinhao Liu, Yunsheng Tian, Yuheng Qiu +4Object-Goal Navigation Visual Grounding for Robotics
Amazon FAR · New York University · UC Berkeley +1
HM3D-M3: A Benchmark for Multi-Agent, Multi-Modal, Multi-Object Goal Navigation
Oct 14, 2026Hongyu Ding, Kanyu Xu, Mingjia Chen +5Robot Navigation Benchmarks Robot Navigation
Hongyu Ding and Jing Huo are with the School of Computer Science, Nanjing University, China. · Hongyu Ding and Yifan Zhang are with the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China. · Kanyu Xu, Zixuan Chen, Jieqi Shi and Yang Gao are with the School of Intelligence Science and Technology, Nanjing University, China. +1
I2O2I-Nav: A Benchmark with a Modular Agent for Long-Horizon Indoor-to-Outdoor-to-Indoor Navigation
Oct 13, 2026Zhengjie Shu, Wanyu Li, Di Xiao +11Indoor Robot Navigation Robot Navigation Benchmarks
University of Hong Kong · Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Independent Researcher +2
LynxScenes: A Large-Scale Real-World Benchmark for Outdoor Wheel-Legged Robot Perception, Navigation, Imagination and Reconstruction
Oct 13, 2026Jun Tian, Hao Wu, Ruo Chen +5Robot Navigation Benchmarks Robot Navigation
Deep Robotics · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology +3
SiGNgapore - An Interactive Dataset for Sign-based Visual Navigation
Oct 7, 2026Nicky Zimmerman, Joel Loo, Zishuo Wang +1Visual Robot Navigation Robot Navigation Benchmarks
National University of Singapore, SG
What the Elevation Map Cannot See: Semantic-Aware Locomotion and Execution-Aware Navigation for Humanoid Robot
Oct 5, 2026Shunyu Yao, Songyang Liu, Dinghao Chen +2Humanoid Robot Locomotion Robot Navigation
Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure & Environment, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA · Independent researcher · Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
Risk-Aware Semantic Grounding for Trustworthy LLM-Based Robot Planning
Sep 29, 2026Łukasz Sobczak, Nur Keleşoğlu, Sławomir Piotr NowakLarge Language Model-Based Robot Planning Robot Navigation
Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Gliwice 44-100, Poland
The Neverwhere Visual Parkour Benchmark Suite
Sep 14, 2026Ziyu Chen, Henghui Bao, Haoran Chang +123D Gaussian Splatting Robotic Policy Evaluation
University of Southern California · Stanford University · UC San Diego +5
OVMAN: A Task and Benchmark for Open-Vocabulary Motion-Aware Navigation
Sep 6, 2026Dibyendu GhoshRobot Navigation Visual Robot Navigation
NavArena: Automated Construction of Goal-Oriented Navigation Benchmarks from 3D Gaussian Splatting Reconstructions
Sep 4, 2026Junhui Wang, Wei Yang, Xinyao Li +4Robot Navigation Benchmarks Visual Navigation
360CityArena: A Realistic Virtual Urban Navigation Benchmark for Embodied Agents
Aug 9, 2026Kenta Watanabe, Atsuyuki Miyai, Mizuki Takenawa +2Spatial Reasoning Benchmarks Embodied Navigation
The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Robostral Navigate
Jul 22, 2026Abdelaziz Bounhar, Abhijeet Somani, Aditi Kabra +273Vision-Language Navigation Robot Navigation
NavVerse: Benchmarking Indoor-to-Outdoor Embodied Navigation in Continuous Robot Simulation
Jul 22, 2026Junzhe Wu, Yue Hu, Zeyu Han +4Object-Goal Navigation Robotics Simulation
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor · Tsinghua University
NavIsaacLab: Generating Realistic Crowd via Parallel Robot Learning for Benchmarking Human-aware Navigation
Jun 24, 2026Bingyi Xia, Han Bao, Jingyu Zhu +6Robotics Simulation Robot Navigation
Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China · National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore · Research Institute of MA&EI, Peng Cheng Laboratory, Shenzhen, China +2
IR-SIM: A Lightweight Declarative Simulator for Navigation Learning and Benchmarking
Jun 7, 2026Ruihua Han, Shuai Wang, Chengyang Li +8Robotics Simulation Robot Navigation
The University of Hong Kong · Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology · Southern University of Science and Technology +2
MineXplore: An Open-Source Reinforcement Learning Exploration Benchmark for GNSS-Denied Underground Environment
Jun 3, 2026Abhishek S, Badrikanath Praharaj, Sreeram MVRL Benchmarks Robot Navigation
BuildMachineLabs
POINav: Benchmarking and Enhancing Final-Meters Arrival in Real-World Vision-Language Navigation
May 27, 2026Ruiyan Gong, Meisheng Zhang, Yuxiang Zhao +12Vision-Language Navigation Visual Robot Navigation
Amap CV Lab, Alibaba Group · Peking University
Beyond Isolation: A Unified Benchmark for General-Purpose Navigation
May 10, 2026Samson Sun, Tianyi Yang, Tengyue Wang +6Embodied Navigation Cross-Embodiment Robot Learning
1AutoLab, SAI, Shanghai Jiao Tong University · 2Research Lab, Anyverse Dynamics
Bi3: A Biplatform, Bicultural, Biperson Dataset for Social Robot Navigation
May 7, 2026Andrew Stratton, Phani Teja Singamaneni, Pranav Goyal +2Social Robotics Social Robot Navigation
Department of Robotics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA · LAAS-CNRS, University of Toulouse, Toulouse, FR · INRIA, University of Lorraine, Nancy, FR
Can Vision Foundation Models Navigate? Zero-Shot Real-World Evaluation and Lessons Learned
Mar 26, 2026Maeva Guerrier, Karthik Soma, Jana Pavlasek +1Visual Navigation Robot Navigation
Polytechnique Montreal
NavTrust: Benchmarking Trustworthiness for Embodied Navigation
Mar 19, 2026Huaide Jiang, Yash Chaudhary, Yuping Wang +8Embodied Navigation Robot Navigation Benchmarks
Northwestern University, IL, USA. · University of California, Riverside, CA, USA. · University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. +5
FLUX: Accelerating Cross-Embodiment Generative Navigation Policies via Rectified Flow and Static-to-Dynamic Learning
Mar 13, 2026Zeying Gong, Yangyi Zhong, Yiyi Ding +6Robot Navigation Benchmarks Robot Policy Learning
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology · National University of Singapore
RVN-Bench: A Benchmark for Reactive Visual Navigation
Mar 4, 2026Jaewon Lee, Jaeseok Heo, Gunmin Lee +3Robot Navigation Benchmarks Robot Navigation
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Seoul National University (SNU) and Automation and Systems Research Institute (ASRI) and Sequor Robotics Inc., Seoul, Korea (Republic of). · Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Seoul National University (SNU) and Automation and Systems Research Institute (ASRI), Seoul, Korea (Republic of). · Interdisciplinary Program in Artificial Intelligence, Seoul National University (SNU) and Automation and Systems Research Institute (ASRI) and Sequor Robotics Inc., Seoul, Korea (Republic of). +1
CapNav: Benchmarking Vision Language Models on Capability-conditioned Indoor Navigation
Feb 20, 2026Xia Su, Ruiqi Chen, Benlin Liu +4Embodied Spatial Reasoning VLN Benchmarks
University of Washington Seattle, WA, USA · University of California, Santa Cruz Santa Cruz, CA, USA
CostNav: A Navigation Benchmark for Real-World Economic-Cost Evaluation of Physical AI Agents
Nov 25, 2025Haebin Seong, Sungmin Kim, Yongjun Cho +20Mobile Robotics Robot Navigation
University of California, Irvine · KAIST · Seoul National University
Towards Data-Driven Metrics for Social Robot Navigation Benchmarking
Sep 1, 2025Pilar Bachiller-Burgos, Ulysses Bernardet, Luis V. Calderita +8Social Robot Navigation Robot Navigation Benchmarks
Universidad de Extremadura, Spain · Aston University, Birmingham, United Kingdom · Logical Robotics, United States of America +5

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StopWatch: Goal Grounding for Object-goal Navigation

Xinhao Liu, Yunsheng Tian, Yuheng Qiu, Pieter Abbeel+3

Amazon FAR · New York University · UC Berkeley+1

Object-Goal Navigation Visual Grounding for Robotics VLMs for Robotics Robot Navigation Benchmarks

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Pretrained VLMs bring rich world knowledge and semantic priors to object-goal navigation, and fine-tuning a VLM into a navigation policy has become a common recipe. Despite this progress, success rates remain low, and it is unclear which capability these fine-tuned policies lack. Our diagnosis identifies goal grounding as the dominant failure. These policies explore well, yet often fail to notice that the goal is already in view or to estimate how far away it is. To address this failure, we ground the goal explicitly. Explicit grounding substantially improves success and reaches state-of-the-art results on six benchmarks across three scene collections. We also correct annotation defects in these benchmarks, so that future methods are evaluated more faithfully. Our analysis on the clean benchmarks shows that, with ground-truth grounding, our policy nearly matches the expert that generated its demonstrations, leaving the headroom in perception rather than policy learning. Our work points to goal grounding as a missing piece of object-goal navigation and offers a simple and effective solution to the task.