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  1. Time-Optimal Ergodic Retrieval

    Oct 15, 2026Christian Sulana, Christian Hughes, Ian AbrahamErgodic ControlRobotic Object Search

    Christian Sulana is with Saddleback College, Mission Viejo, California, USA · Christian Hughes is with the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA · Ian Abraham is with the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

  2. RoboQuest: Generalist Physical Agents that Search, Inspect and Test

    Oct 7, 2026Liu Renhang, Navonil Majumder, Tej Deep Pala +1Embodied Agent BenchmarksAutonomous Robot Exploration

    Nanyang Technological University

  3. LOCUS: Landmark-Oriented Container Discrimination Using Spatial Graphs

    Oct 2, 2026Taylor Bergeron, Shibani Senthilbabu, Kevin LeahyRobotic Object SearchRobotics

    Department of Robotics Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA, USA

  4. Plan-Conditioned Imitation for Robust Object Retrieval under Self-Occlusion in Dense Clutter

    Sep 30, 2026Kowndinya Boyalakuntla, Ajinkya Pawar, Abdeslam Boularias +1Imitation LearningRobotic Manipulation

    Rutgers University · Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India

  5. Retrospective Open-Vocabulary Memory for Long-Term Object Search

    Sep 29, 2026Jiaming Wang, Zhiwei Xue, Chen Jizhuo +2Robotic Object SearchRobotic Spatial Memory

    National University of Singapore

  6. SOR-Nav: Search or Relocate? Context-Gated Exploration and Cross-Region Relocation for Object Navigation

    Sep 28, 2026Yuan Ji, Zirui Li, Yuxin Cai +3Robot NavigationObject-Goal Navigation

    School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 639798, Singapore · Schaeffler Hub for Advance REsearch(SHARE) at NTU, Singapore

  7. From Passive Execution to Active Exploration: Agentic Embodied Manipulation in Realistic Environments

    Sep 24, 2026Shilin Ma, Chubin Zhang, Xulong Bai +3Long-Horizon Robotic ManipulationActive Vision for Robot Manipulation

    Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University

  8. Structured World-State Reasoning for Agentic Robotic Search

    Sep 20, 2026Finley R. Holt, Luis A. Pabon, John Irvin Alora +2Visual NavigationEmbodied Navigation

    Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University

  9. Spatial-Semantic Uncertainty in VLM-Based Target Search: Balancing Exploration and Identification

    Sep 17, 2026Alkesh K. Srivastava, Jonathan Diller, Vijay Kumar +1Belief-Space PlanningVision-Language Models

    Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, 19122 USA · University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19104 USA

  10. RoboFind: Multi-Agent Personalized Object Search for People Who Are Blind or Have Low Vision

    Sep 17, 2026Ruiping Liu, Shaofang Quan, Qian Yin +10Assistive RoboticsMulti-Agent Systems

    The authors are with the Institute for Anthropomatics and Robotics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe 76131, Germany. · The author is with the School of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics and the National Engineering Research Center of Robot Visual Perception and Control Technology, Hunan University, Changsha 410012, China. · The author is with Mercedes-Benz.

  11. Finder: Agentic Closed-Loop Object Finding for Embodied Grounding

    Sep 16, 2026Shixiong Xu, Zhiyuan Chen, Song Ding +4Robotic Object SearchEmbodied AI

    Xiaomi Robotics

  12. TACTFUL: Tactile-Driven Exploration For Object Localization and Identification in Confined Environments

    Jun 23, 2026Shivani Kamtikar, Chung Hee Kim, Camilla Tabasso +3RL for RoboticsRobotic Tactile Sensing

    Amazon Fulfillment Technologies & Robotics, Westborough, MA, USA. · Siebel School of Computing and Data Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA. · Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.

  13. When to Personalize Household Object Search: A Rigidity-Gated Hybrid Policy

    Jun 18, 2026Xianyao Li, Yuhai Wang, Hu Xiao +3Robot Policy LearningRobotics

    Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA · Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115, USA · NVIDIA

  14. DIFF-IPPO: Diffusion-Based Informative Path Planning with Open-Vocabulary Belief Maps

    Jun 15, 2026Sausar Karaf, Oleg Sautenkov, Mikhail Martynov +1Diffusion-Based PlanningInformative Path Planning

    CDE, Skoltech, Bolshoy Boulevard, 30, bld. 1, Moscow 121205, Russia

  15. FARM: Find Anything using Relational Spatial Memory

    Jun 13, 2026Siming He, Leo Huang, Adam Lilja +6Visual Spatial ReasoningRelational Reasoning

    1UC Berkeley · 2Stanford University

  16. IntentNav: Learning Spatial-Visual Object Navigation from Human Demonstrations

    Jun 6, 2026Yuxin Cai, Zongtai Li, Maonan Wang +9VLMs for RoboticsRobot Imitation Learning

    Nanyang Technological University · Carnegie Mellon University · The Chinese University of Hong Kong +1

  17. IntentionNav: A Benchmark for Intent-Driven Object Navigation from Implicit Human Instruction

    May 22, 2026Lin Qian, Shijie Li, Sihao Lin +4Visual NavigationVLMs for Robotics

    1The University of Manchester · 2A*STAR · 3Responsible AI Research Centre, Adelaide University +2

  18. POMDP-based Object Search with Growing State Space and Hybrid Action Domain

    Apr 16, 2026Yongbo Chen, Hesheng Wang, Shoudong Huang +1Mobile RoboticsMonte Carlo Tree Search

    School of Automation and Intelligent Sensing, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, People’s Republic of China · School of Computing, Australian National University (ANU), Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia (The main part of this work is completed at ANU) · Key Laboratory of System Control and Information Processing, Ministry of Education of China, Shanghai, 200240, People’s Republic of China +1

  19. The Neural Compass: Probabilistic Relative Feature Fields for Robotic Search

    Mar 9, 2026Gabriele Somaschini, Adrian Röfer, Abhinav ValadaRobotic Object SearchRobotics

    The authors are with the Department of Computer Science, University of Freiburg.

  20. Rethinking the semantic classification of indoor places by mobile robots

    Mar 9, 2026Oscar Martinez Mozos, Alejandra C. Hernandez, Clara Gomez +1Robotic Object SearchRobotic Perception

    Robotics Lab, DISA, Carlos III University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain

  21. Relational Semantic Reasoning on 3D Scene Graphs for Open World Interactive Object Search

    Mar 5, 2026Imen Mahdi, Matteo Cassinelli, Fabien Despinoy +2Robotic Object SearchRobot Navigation

    University of Freiburg · Toyota Motor Europe

  22. WildOS: Open-Vocabulary Object Search in the Wild

    Feb 22, 2026Hardik Shah, Erica Tevere, Deegan Atha +6Visual Robot NavigationRobotic Object Search

    Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, CA 91011, USA · Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zürich), Robotic Systems Lab, Zürich 8092, Switzerland · FieldAI Inc. 3 Morgan, Irvine, CA, USA. Work Performed at NASA JPL +2