EvoMemNav builds a Visual-Semantic Memory Graph keeping raw views, applies a budgeted coarse-to-fine policy, and uses reflection-driven updates to improve zero-shot navigation on GOAT-Bench and HM3D.
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A survey of robotic navigation and manipulation with physics simulators in the era of embodied ai
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Navigation and manipulation are core capabilities in Embodied AI, but training agents to perform them directly in the real world is costly, time-consuming, and unsafe. Therefore, sim-to-real transfer has emerged as a key approach, yet the sim-to-real gap persists. This survey examines how physics simulators address this gap by analyzing properties that have received limited attention in prior surveys. We also analyze their features for navigation and manipulation tasks, as well as their hardware requirements. Additionally, we offer a resource with benchmark datasets, metrics, simulation platforms, and methods to help researchers select suitable tools while accounting for hardware constraints.
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SAGE trains agents in physics-grounded semantic abstractions via RL with asymmetric clipping, achieving 53.21% LLM-Match Success on A-EQA (+9.7% over baseline) and encouraging physical robot transfer.
ClickSeg3D uses a point Transformer encoder and hierarchical mask decoder with semantic embeddings to enable single-pass multi-object 3D interactive segmentation from sparse points, reporting over 20% mIoU gains versus baselines and 8-10% cross-dataset improvements with one click per instance.
PhyMix unifies a new multi-aspect physics evaluator with implicit policy optimization and explicit test-time correction to produce single-image 3D indoor scenes that are both visually faithful and physically plausible.
MapTab is a new multimodal benchmark with 328 images and nearly 200k queries that shows current MLLMs have substantial difficulty with multi-criteria route planning when visual and tabular information must be combined.
EG-GRPO augments VLA aerial navigation with expert-guided group relative policy optimization and a faster simulation pipeline, claiming 2.13x success rate and 60.9% better intent alignment versus SFT baseline.
A survey of UAV vision-and-language navigation that establishes a methodological taxonomy, reviews resources and challenges, and proposes a forward-looking research roadmap.
A survey reviewing the architecture, usage patterns, and limitations of NVIDIA Isaac Sim across robotics domains.
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EvoMemNav: Efficient Self-Evolving Fine-Grained Memory for Zero-Shot Embodied Navigation
EvoMemNav builds a Visual-Semantic Memory Graph keeping raw views, applies a budgeted coarse-to-fine policy, and uses reflection-driven updates to improve zero-shot navigation on GOAT-Bench and HM3D.
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Plan in Sandbox, Navigate in Open Worlds: Learning Physics-Grounded Abstracted Experience for Embodied Navigation
SAGE trains agents in physics-grounded semantic abstractions via RL with asymmetric clipping, achieving 53.21% LLM-Match Success on A-EQA (+9.7% over baseline) and encouraging physical robot transfer.
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ClickSeg3D: Few-Click Interactive Segmentation via Semantic Embeddings
ClickSeg3D uses a point Transformer encoder and hierarchical mask decoder with semantic embeddings to enable single-pass multi-object 3D interactive segmentation from sparse points, reporting over 20% mIoU gains versus baselines and 8-10% cross-dataset improvements with one click per instance.
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PhyMix: Towards Physically Consistent Single-Image 3D Indoor Scene Generation with Implicit--Explicit Optimization
PhyMix unifies a new multi-aspect physics evaluator with implicit policy optimization and explicit test-time correction to produce single-image 3D indoor scenes that are both visually faithful and physically plausible.
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MapTab: Are MLLMs Ready for Multi-Criteria Route Planning in Heterogeneous Graphs?
MapTab is a new multimodal benchmark with 328 images and nearly 200k queries that shows current MLLMs have substantial difficulty with multi-criteria route planning when visual and tabular information must be combined.
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Towards Precise Intent-Aligned VLA Aerial Navigation via Expert-Guided GRPO
EG-GRPO augments VLA aerial navigation with expert-guided group relative policy optimization and a faster simulation pipeline, claiming 2.13x success rate and 60.9% better intent alignment versus SFT baseline.
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Vision-and-Language Navigation for UAVs: Progress, Challenges, and a Research Roadmap
A survey of UAV vision-and-language navigation that establishes a methodological taxonomy, reviews resources and challenges, and proposes a forward-looking research roadmap.
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NVIDIA Isaac Sim: Enabling Scalable, GPU-Accelerated Simulation for Robotics
A survey reviewing the architecture, usage patterns, and limitations of NVIDIA Isaac Sim across robotics domains.