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  1. AnyImageNav: Any-View Geometry for Precise Last-Meter Image-Goal Navigation

    Apr 7, 2026Yijie Deng, Shuaihang Yuan, Yi FangImage MatchingVisual Robot Navigation

    NYUAD Center for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (CAIR), Abu Dhabi, UAE · New York University Abu Dhabi, Electrical Engineering, Abu Dhabi 129188, UAE · New York University, Electrical & Computer Engineering Dept., Brooklyn, NY 11201, USA. +1

  2. DRIVE-Nav: Directional Reasoning, Inspection, and Verification for Efficient Open-Vocabulary Navigation

    Mar 30, 2026Maoguo Gao, Zejun Zhu, Zhiming Sun +6Embodied NavigationOpen-Vocabulary Object Navigation

    1Beijing Institute of Technology · 2DeepBlue College · 3The National Key Laboratory of Autonomous Intelligent Unmanned Systems (KAIUS), School of Automation

  3. DiffusionAnything: End-to-End In-context Diffusion Learning for Unified Navigation and Pre-Grasp Motion

    Mar 27, 2026Iana Zhura, Yara Mahmoud, Jeffrin Sam +4Visual Robot NavigationDiffusion-Based Planning

    The authors are with the Intelligent Space Robotics Laboratory, Center for Digital Engineering, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology.

  4. Can Vision Foundation Models Navigate? Zero-Shot Real-World Evaluation and Lessons Learned

    Mar 26, 2026Maeva Guerrier, Karthik Soma, Jana Pavlasek +1Visual NavigationRobot Navigation

    Polytechnique Montreal

  5. CATNAV: Cached Vision-Language Traversability for Efficient Zero-Shot Robot Navigation

    Mar 24, 2026Aditya Potnis, Francisco Affonso, Shreya Gummadi +2Robot Traversability EstimationRobot Navigation

    Field Robotics Engineering and Science Hub (FRESH), Illinois Autonomous Farm, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), IL

  6. CeRLP: A Cross-embodiment Robot Local Planning Framework for Visual Navigation

    Mar 20, 2026Haoyu Xi, Mingao Tan, Xinming Zhang +5Visual Robot NavigationRobot Navigation

    School of Computer Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, P. R. China · College of Information Science and Technology, Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo, P. R. China

  7. DreamToNav: Generalizable Navigation for Robots via Generative Video Planning

    Mar 6, 2026Valerii Serpiva, Jeffrin Sam, Chidera Simon +4Robot NavigationVisual Robot Navigation

    The authors are with the Intelligent Space Robotics Laboratory, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology Moscow, Bolshoy Boulevard 30, bld. 1, 121205, Moscow, Russia.

  8. OpenFrontier: General Navigation with Visual-Language Grounded Frontiers

    Mar 5, 2026Esteban Padilla-Cerdio, Boyang Sun, Marc Pollefeys +1Robot NavigationVision-Language Navigation

    1ETH Zurich · 2Microsoft Spatial AI Lab · University of Bonn

  9. SaferPath: Hierarchical Visual Navigation with Learned Guidance and Safety-Constrained Control

    Mar 2, 2026Lingjie Zhang, Zeyu Jiang, Changhao ChenVisual Robot NavigationRobot Navigation

    PEAK-Lab, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), Guangzhou, 511453, China

  10. 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

  11. Learning to Localize Reference Trajectories in Image-Space for Visual Navigation

    Feb 21, 2026Finn Lukas Busch, Matti Vahs, Quantao Yang +4Robot Trajectory TrackingRobot Navigation

    Division of Robotics, Perception, and Learning, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, and also affiliated with Digital Futures

  12. EmbodiedDiffusion: End-to-End Traversability-Guided Visual Diffusion for Heterogeneous Robot Navigation

    Dec 2, 2025Iana Zhura, Sausar Karaf, Faryal Batool +7Robot Motion GenerationTrajectory Generation

    Intelligent Space Robotics Laboratory, Center for Digital Engineering, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology.

  13. MM-Nav: Multi-View VLA Model for Robust Visual Navigation via Multi-Expert Learning

    Oct 3, 2025Tianyu Xu, Jiawei Chen, Jiazhao Zhang +5Robot NavigationVisual Robot Navigation

    Peking University, Beijing, China · Galbot, Beijing, China · Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China +1