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  1. An Integrated Open-Source Stack for Vision-Based Autonomous Navigation of Wheeled Rovers

    Nov 5, 2026Iaroslav Kolomiets, Iaroslav Sheipak, Mikhail Reppo +3Robot NavigationVisual Robot Navigation

    MSU Rover Team · Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia · Department of Mechatronics and Automation, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico

  2. Rendering-Free Event Frame Simulation for Fast Reinforcement Learning of Autonomous Robot Navigation

    Oct 27, 2026Dequan Ou, Austin Lopez, Quentin Missinne +2Event Camera SimulationRobotics Simulation

    All authors are with the Micro Air Vehicle Lab of the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Delft University of Technology, 2629 HS Delft, The Netherlands

  3. See What I Need, Dream What I Want: A Navigation Foundation Model on a Self-Constructed Representation Space

    Oct 22, 2026Jiawei Chen, Yinxi Wang, Zihan Yang +12Visual Robot NavigationVision-Language Navigation

    Peking University · University College London, University of London · DataCanvas

  4. CLOSER: Evidence-Aware Active Visual Verification for Embodied Object-Goal Navigation

    Oct 20, 2026Pengying Wu, Mingye Jiang, Yunze Hu +5Object-Goal NavigationVisual Robot Navigation

    School of Advanced Manufacturing and Robotics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China

  5. EchoNav: Evidential BEV Completion from Historical Observations for Visual Navigation

    Oct 20, 2026Diwen Liu, Yiyang Shao, Borui Wang +6Visual Robot Navigation

    The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China. · The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China.

  6. Structure over Reasoning: Unified Zero-Shot Navigation with a Small Vision-Language Model

    Oct 18, 2026Zeqi Li, Xunyi Zhao, Zerui Li +3Visual Robot NavigationVision-Language Navigation

    Technical University of Munich, Germany. · Adelaide University, Responsible AI Research Centre, Australian Institute for Machine Learning, Australia. · Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), A*STAR, Singapore.

  7. HAVANA: A Hierarchical Video-Action Model for Vision-Language Navigation

    Oct 16, 2026Dongzhihan Wang, Yi Du, Chen Wang +2Vision-Language NavigationVisual Robot Navigation

    Tongji University · SAIR Lab · Shanghai University

  8. ChairNav: Cross-Embodiment Pre-training and Personalization for Long-Horizon Wheelchair Navigation

    Oct 15, 2026Junhua Huang, Zhizheng Liu, Honglin He +2Robot NavigationAssistive Robotics

    University of California, Los Angeles · Louisiana State University

  9. VbotNav-0: Asynchronous Cloud-Edge Dual-Policy Navigation across Indoor and Outdoor Environments

    Oct 10, 2026Shiqi Tan, Yujun Zhang, Keyu Li +4Robot NavigationVisual Robot Navigation

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

    Oct 8, 2026Jinkai Zhang, Jingyi Xu, Yuanhong Yu +5Robot NavigationVisual Robot Navigation

    Zhejiang University · Shenzhen University · Causa Robotics

  11. SiGNgapore - An Interactive Dataset for Sign-based Visual Navigation

    Oct 7, 2026Nicky Zimmerman, Joel Loo, Zishuo Wang +1Visual Robot NavigationRobot Navigation Benchmarks

    National University of Singapore, SG

  12. RECAST: Recasting Vision-Language Semantics into an Actionable Cost Map for Robot Navigation

    Sep 26, 2026Incheol Cho, Jintae Park, Jinkyu Kim +3Robot NavigationVisual Robot Navigation

    Korea University · Hanwha Aerospace · KAIST AI +1

  13. NaViRrator: Robot Navigation from Human-Readable Maps through a Learned Visual Route

    Sep 18, 2026Ayun Lee, Jiseon Kim, Giseop KimRobot NavigationVisual Robot Navigation

    Department of Robotics and Mechatronics Engineering, DGIST, Daegu, Republic of Korea

  14. Navi-Agent: Unlocalized Monocular Navigation Agent

    Sep 17, 2026Wenyuan Xie, Mengyang Hong, Yongzhong Wang +9Robot NavigationVision-Language Navigation

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Southern University of Science and Technology · Xinjiang University of Finance and Economics +1

  15. Universal Navigation Interface: Robot-Free Data for Wheeled Robot Navigation

    Sep 17, 2026Sarvesh Prajapati, Ananya Trivedi, Lorena Maria Genua +3Visual NavigationRobotic Data Collection

    Institute for Experiential Robotics, Northeastern University, Boston, MA. · Khoury College of Computer Science, Northeastern University, Seattle, WA, USA.

  16. C2^2Nav: Compare Before You Commit for Zero-Shot Vision-and-Language Navigation

    Sep 14, 2026Runtian Zheng, Congpeng Zhang, Ying LiuVision-Language NavigationVLM Reasoning

    North China University of Technology, Beijing, China

  17. Multi-Task Visual Perception Network with LLM Conditioning for Autonomous Navigation

    Sep 13, 2026Praveen Kumar, K. R. Guruprasad, Tushar SandhanRobot NavigationVisual Robot Navigation

    Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India · Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India

  18. OVMAN: A Task and Benchmark for Open-Vocabulary Motion-Aware Navigation

    Sep 6, 2026Dibyendu GhoshRobot NavigationVisual Robot Navigation

  19. LightNav-0: Eliciting VLM Spatial Intelligence for Generalist Embodied Navigation

    Aug 31, 2026Shaoan Wang, Aocheng Luo, Fei Huang +17Open-Vocabulary Object NavigationCross-Embodiment Robot Learning

    Light Origins Team

  20. X-NavDP: Generalizing Navigation Diffusion Policy to Novel Behavior and Embodiments with Group Q-score Reweighted Matching

    Jul 30, 2026Tianyu Yang, Yiming Zeng, Wenzhe Cai +5Robot NavigationPolicy Optimization

    1Fudan University · 3Sun Yat-sen University · 2Shanghai AI Laboratory +1

  21. Robostral Navigate

    Jul 22, 2026Abdelaziz Bounhar, Abhijeet Somani, Aditi Kabra +273Vision-Language NavigationRobot Navigation

  22. NavVerse: Benchmarking Indoor-to-Outdoor Embodied Navigation in Continuous Robot Simulation

    Jul 22, 2026Junzhe Wu, Yue Hu, Zeyu Han +4Object-Goal NavigationRobotics Simulation

    University of Michigan, Ann Arbor · Tsinghua University

  23. DA-Nav: Direction-Aware City-Scale Vision-Language Navigation

    Jul 13, 2026Ye Yuan, Kehan Chen, Xinqiang Yu +7Embodied NavigationVision-Language Navigation

    School of Information Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai 201210, China · Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China · National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition (NLPR), Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China +3

  24. ABot-N1: Toward a General Visual Language Navigation Foundation Model

    Jul 11, 2026Ruiyan Gong, Yingnan Guo, Junjun Hu +43Robotic ControlRobot Foundation Models

  25. GemNav: Discrete-Token Visual Robot Navigation using a Multimodal Large Language Model

    Jul 8, 2026Peter Bohm, Saimunur Rahman, Abdelwahed Khamis +3VLM AdaptationRobot Navigation

    CSIRO Robotics, CSIRO Australia

  26. UniLM-Nav: A Unified Framework for Zero-Shot Last-Mile Navigation

    Jul 7, 2026Zhuofan Zhang, Tianxu Wang, Guoxi Zhang +6Mobile ManipulationRobot Navigation

    1Tsinghua University · 2State Key Laboratory of General Artificial Intelligence, BIGAI · 3Harbin Institute of Technology +1

  27. VISTA: Scale-Aware Visual Navigation via Action History Conditioning

    Jun 15, 2026Maeva Guerrier, Koki Kobayashi, Simon Roy +2Vision Foundation ModelsRobot Navigation

    Polytechnique Montreal, MILA · Institute of Science Tokyo · Polytechnique Montreal +2

  28. SemGeoNav:A Safety-Guided Visual Navigation Approach with Semantic Reasoning and Geometric Planning

    Jun 15, 2026Yu Liu, Zongyang Chen, Yan Guo +2Robot NavigationVisual Robot Navigation

    College of Intelligence Science and Technology, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China.

  29. SAFER-Nav: Enhancing Safety for Visual Robot Navigation via Segmentation-Aware Fine-Tuning

    Jun 10, 2026Geonyeong Ko, Giung Lee, Changjoo NamRobot Policy LearningTrajectory Generation

    Dept. of Electronic Engineering, Sogang University, Seoul, Korea · Dept. of Computer Science, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA · Vertical Labs, Co., Ltd., Seoul, Korea

  30. AllDayNav: Lifelong Navigation via Real-World Reinforcement Learning

    Jun 9, 2026Hang Yin, Yinan Liang, Jiazhao Zhang +4RL for RoboticsContinual Robot Learning

    Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China · Galbot Robotics, Beijing, China · Peking University, Beijing 100871, China +1