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ScaleNav uses internet videos for robot navigation

Researchers have developed ScaleNav, a novel framework for language-conditioned local navigation in robots. This system leverages large-scale pretraining on internet egocentric videos to learn goal-directed visual dynamics, which are then fine-tuned with simulated data to generate robot actions. ScaleNav has demonstrated high success rates in both simulated environments and real-world deployments on a quadruped robot, outperforming existing benchmarks. AI

IMPACT Enables robots to navigate more effectively using natural language commands by leveraging large-scale video data.

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ScaleNav uses internet videos for robot navigation

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  1. Hugging Face Daily Papers TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    ScaleNav: Scalable Internet Video Pretraining for Language-Conditioned Local Navigation

    ScaleNav learns goal-directed visual dynamics from internet egocentric videos to generate robot actions for language-conditioned local navigation, achieving high success rates in simulation and real-world deployment.