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  1. SuperNav: An Agentic Navigation System for Any Task in Any Scene

    Oct 8, 2026Jinkai Zhang, Jingyi Xu, Yuanhong Yu +5Robot NavigationVision-Language Navigation

    Zhejiang University · Shenzhen University · Causa Robotics

  2. Learning Language-Conditioned Traversability Representations for Adaptive Visual Navigation

    Oct 8, 2026Senda Chen, Changxu Cheng, Fangdi Li +2Robot NavigationVision-Language Navigation

    Uni-Ubi

  3. NavGPT-3: Harnessing Context in a Hierarchical Navigation Runtime

    Oct 7, 2026Gengze Zhou, Yicong Hong, Jiazhao Zhang +9Robot NavigationVision-Language Navigation

    AIML, Adelaide University · Metacognition · Roblox +5

  4. AirGroundVLN: A Large-Scale Benchmark for Goal-Oriented Air-Ground Collaborative Vision-and-Language Navigation

    Oct 7, 2026Zhenxuan Zeng, Qingle Wu, Wei Suo +4Vision-Language NavigationAerial VLN

    School of Computer Science, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China.

  5. Speaking the Navigator's Language: Trajectory-Grounded Instruction Translation for Frozen Aerial VLN Agents

    Oct 7, 2026Xi Chen, Zhe Liu, Xiaogang Xu +8Aerial VLNVision-Language Navigation

    Zhejiang University · Zhejiang Lab

  6. Seeing the Invisible: Physics-Guided Visual Prompting for Temperature- and Radiation-Aware VLA Navigation

    Oct 6, 2026Hojoon Son, Fan ZhangSafe Robot NavigationVision-Language Navigation

    George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0405 USA

  7. 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 LocomotionRobot 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

  8. Sim-to-Real Transfer of Vision-Language Navigation in Continuous Environments Using an Ackermann-Steered Mobile Robot

    Oct 5, 2026Chalindu Abeywansa, Sahan Gunasekara, Devindi De Silva +3VLM AdaptationSim-to-Real Transfer

    Department of Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Colombo, Sri Lanka.

  9. MarvisNav: Making Memory Visible on Route Choices for Zero-Shot Object Navigation

    Oct 5, 2026Jincheng Wang, Chi Pui Chan, Wei Zeng +3Memory-Augmented VLMsVision-Language Navigation

    University College London, University of London · China Merchants Group, LionRock AI Lab · Shenzhen University

  10. StageVLN: Spatial and Trajectory Auxiliary Guidance for Efficient Vision-Language Navigation

    Oct 5, 2026Anh Dao, Quan-Dung Pham, Le Danh Vinh +6Vision-Language Navigation

    VinMotion, Inc., Vietnam · University of Southern California, USA

  11. LightVLN: Efficient Aerial Vision-and-Language Navigation with Compact Memory and History-Guided Local Aggregation

    Oct 4, 2026Yiming Zhao, Tianshun Li, Jingle He +2Memory-Augmented VLMsVision-Language Models

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), Guangzhou, China

  12. UniTrackPLA: Unified Panorama-Language-Action Model for Instruction-Guided Navigation and Dynamic Person Tracking

    Oct 1, 2026Pengfei Qi, Haoran Lin, Sizhuang Chen +7Visual Object TrackingRobot Navigation

    College of Integrated Circuits, Hunan University, Changsha, China · School of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics and the National Engineering Research Center of Robot Visual Perception and Control Technology, Hunan University, Changsha, China · School of Advanced Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, China +1

  13. NavHarness: Adaptive Goals for Agentic Vision-Language Navigation

    Sep 30, 2026Haoxiang Shi, Zaijing Li, Muhe Ding +3Vision-Language NavigationMultimodal Agents

    Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen) · Pengcheng Laboratory

  14. AVERT-VLN: Abstention-aware Visual Error Recovery and Training for Vision-and-Language Navigation

    Sep 30, 2026Minrui Liu, Jingke Wang, Yuehao Huang +4Vision-Language Navigation

    Institute of Cyber-Systems and Control, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.

  15. ASENA: Self-evolving Agents for Embodied Navigation

    Sep 30, 2026An-Chieh Cheng, Isabella Liu, Edmund Bu +7Embodied NavigationLarge Language Model-Based Robot Planning

    NVIDIA · University of California, San Diego

  16. Credit-Guided Policy Improvement for Test-time Adaptive Vision-Language Navigation

    Sep 29, 2026Yang Li, Sijia Zhang, Yihan Li +4Robot Policy LearningRobot Policy Adaptation

    School of Artificial Intelligence, Tianjin University, China · The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China · School of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, China

  17. Seek Before You Move: Evidence Seeking for Progress Grounding in Vision-Language Navigation

    Sep 29, 2026Zhimin Wang, Meiyuan Zhu, Duo Wu +8Vision-Language NavigationRL for VLMs

    Tsinghua University · Pengcheng Laboratory · South China University of Technology +3

  18. InsightMap: Structured Spatial Modeling for Embodied Multimodal Reasoning

    Sep 29, 2026Hongpei Zheng, Hujun YinAgent MemoryEmbodied Navigation

    University of Manchester

  19. Systematic Multi-Agent Vision-and-Language Navigation: Formulation, Benchmark, and Method

    Sep 28, 2026Yunzhe Xu, Zhe LiuMulti-Agent CoordinationVision-Language Navigation

    School of Automation and Intelligent Sensing, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China

  20. EdgeVLN: Runtime-Aware Deployment Ready Quantized Vision Language Navigation Model

    Sep 28, 2026Rithvik Jonna, Man Namgung, Aakash Gurram +1Visual NavigationVLM Quantization

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Johns Hopkins University · Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics Johns Hopkins University

  21. NavJev: Efficient Vision-Language Navigation via Action-Centric Visual Compression and Discriminative Action-Semantic Memory

    Sep 28, 2026Kai Sheng, Liuyi Wang, Jinlong Li +3Efficient VLM InferenceVision-Language Navigation

    College of Electronic and Information Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

  22. PanoVLN: Towards Effective Panoramic Vision-and-Language Navigation

    Sep 28, 2026Zhen Wang, Changpeng Wang, Zhe Liu +5Vision-Language NavigationVLMs for Robotics

    Zhejiang University · The University of Hong Kong

  23. VCN-Bench: A Video-Contextualized Navigation Benchmark for Spatial Reasoning over Prior Visual Experience

    Sep 28, 2026Siqi Zhang, Meng Wei, Chenyang Wan +6Visual NavigationSpatial Reasoning Benchmarks

    Tongji University · The University of Hong Kong · Zhejiang University +2

  24. Reliability-Aware Sparse Route Memory for Round-Trip Vision-Language Navigation

    Sep 28, 2026Bojun Long, Lingfan Bao, Tianhu Peng +2Embodied NavigationRobot Navigation

    Department of Computer Science, University College London, London, United Kingdom

  25. InfraVLA: Extending Vision-Language-Action Navigation with Infrastructure Cameras

    Sep 27, 2026Lukas Vierling, Benjamin Ramtoula, Luke Robinson +2Robot NavigationVision-Language Navigation

    Dept. of Computer Science, University of Oxford · Oxford Robotics Institute, University of Oxford

  26. ForeFly: A Dual-Horizon World Action Model for Aerial Vision-Language Navigation

    Sep 27, 2026Kunhui Wang, Xintong Zhang, Junyu Gao +1World Models for RoboticsUAV Navigation

    State Key Laboratory of Multimodal Artificial Intelligence Systems, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China · School of Advanced Interdisciplinary Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China · Division of Natural and Applied Sciences, Duke Kunshan University, Suzhou, China +1

  27. Affordance-Conditioned Decision Making: Bridging the Semantic-Spatial Gap in Zero-Shot Cross-Floor Vision-and-Language Navigation

    Sep 26, 2026Xuekang Yang, Lu Chen, Shuang Luo +4Vision-Language Navigation

    School of Computer Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University · School of Automation and Intelligent Sensing, Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Defense Innovation Institute, Academy of Military Sciences +1

  28. Beyond Spatial Benchmarks: From Spatial Reasoning to Navigation

    Sep 24, 2026Xun Huang, Shijia Zhao, Rongsheng Qu +5Spatial Reasoning BenchmarksRobot Policy Learning

    Xiamen University · Zhongguancun Academy · Beihang University +2

  29. GPT-6-Astra Lights Up Embodied Navigation: Evaluation in Zero-Shot Vision-and-Language Navigation in Continuous Environments

    Sep 24, 2026Guangzhao Dai, Qianru Sun, Qi Wu +1Embodied NavigationVision-Language Navigation

    School of Computing and Information Systems, Singapore Management University · Australia Institute for Machine Learning

  30. SparseNav: Instruction-conditioned Sparse Semantic Perception for Training-Free Vision-Language Navigation

    Sep 22, 2026Quanhua Chen, Juhan Kang, Runfeng Lin +5Embodied NavigationVision-Language Navigation