# ScoutBot: A Dialogue System for Collaborative Navigation

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.08074 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/1807.08074/

## Key facts

- Cited by 3 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 21 Jul 2018.

## Built on by (most cited first, 3 of 3)

- [Towards a Neural Era in Dialogue Management for Collaboration: A Literature Survey](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2307.09021/) (2023)
- [Which One Are You Referring To? Multimodal Object Identification in Situated Dialogue](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2302.14680/) (2023)
- [Believing without Seeing: Quality Scores for Contextualizing Vision-Language Model Explanations](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2509.25844/) (2025)

## Abstract (arXiv)

ScoutBot is a dialogue interface to physical and simulated robots that supports collaborative exploration of environments. The demonstration will allow users to issue unconstrained spoken language commands to ScoutBot. ScoutBot will prompt for clarification if the user's instruction needs additional input. It is trained on human-robot dialogue collected from Wizard-of-Oz experiments, where robot responses were initiated by a human wizard in previous interactions. The demonstration will show a simulated ground robot (Clearpath Jackal) in a simulated environment supported by ROS (Robot Operating System).