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ABot-N0: Technical Report on the VLA Foundation Model for Versatile Embodied Navigation

arXiv 2602.11598 ↗First posted 12 Feb 2026cs.RO cs.AI cs.CVcited by 23

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Embodied navigation has long been fragmented by task-specific architectures. We introduce ABot-N0, a unified Vision-Language-Action (VLA) foundation model that achieves a ``Grand Unification'' across 5 core tasks: Point-Goal, Object-Goal, Instruction-Following, POI-Goal, and Person-Following. ABot-N0 utilizes a hierarchical ``Brain-Action'' architecture, pairing an LLM-based Cognitive Brain for semantic reasoning with a Flow Matching-based Action Expert for precise, continuous trajectory generation. To support large-scale learning, we developed the ABot-N0 Data Engine, curating 16.9M expert trajectories and 5.0M reasoning samples across 7,802 high-fidelity 3D scenes (10.7 km2). ABot-N0 achieves new SOTA performance across 7 benchmarks, significantly outperforming specialized models. Furthermore, our Agentic Navigation System integrates a planner with hierarchical topological memory, enabling robust, long-horizon missions in dynamic real-world environments.

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  1. 2026Metis: A Generalizable and Efficient World-Action Model for Autonomous Driving and Urban Navigationcited by 10
  2. 2026Qwen-RobotNav Technical Report: A Scalable Navigation Model Designed for an Agentic Navigation Systemcited by 10
  3. 2026ABot-Claw: A Foundation for Persistent, Cooperative, and Self-Evolving Robotic Agentscited by 6
  4. 2026ACE-Brain-0.5: A Unified Embodied Foundational Model for Physical Agentic AIcited by 5
  5. 2026ABot-N1: Toward a General Visual Language Navigation Foundation Modelcited by 5
  6. 2026Explore Like Humans: Autonomous Exploration with Online SG-Memo Construction for Embodied Agentscited by 3
  7. 2026Uni-LaViRA: Language-Vision-Robot Actions Translation for Unified Embodied Navigationcited by 3
  8. 2026Robostral Navigatecited by 3
  9. 2026HarnessVLN: Unifying Training-Free Embodied Navigation through an Agent Harnesscited by 3
  10. 2026AsyncShield: A Plug-and-Play Edge Adapter for Asynchronous Cloud-based VLA Navigationcited by 2
  11. 2026POINav: Benchmarking and Enhancing Final-Meters Arrival in Real-World Vision-Language Navigationcited by 2
  12. 2026LIME: Learning Intent-aware Camera Motion from Egocentric Videocited by 2
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  1. 2026ReplicateAnyScene: Zero-Shot Video-to-3D Composition via Textual-Visual-Spatial Alignmentcited by 1
  2. 2026A Comprehensive Survey and Systematic Real-World Evaluation of Embodied Vision-and-Language Navigationcited by 1
  3. 2026HAM-VLN: Harnessing Hierarchical Agentic Memory for Zero-Shot Vision-and-Language Navigationcited by 1
  4. 2026Scaffolding Foundation Models into Physical-World Agents Pushes the Frontier of Long-Horizon Navigationcited by 1
  5. 2026LightNav-0: Eliciting VLM Spatial Intelligence for Generalist Embodied Navigationcited by 1
  6. 2026What Limits Vision-and-Language Navigation ?cited by 0
  7. 2026ABot-AgentOS: A General Robotic Agent OS with Lifelong Multi-modal Memorycited by 0
  8. 2026GroundingVLN: Reasoning and Acting with Grounding for Vision-Language Navigationcited by 0
  9. 2026What do VLM-Based Vision-Language Navigation Models Rely on: Interpreting and Steering Policy Behaviorcited by 0
  10. 2026Affordance-Conditioned Decision Making: Bridging the Semantic-Spatial Gap in Zero-Shot Cross-Floor Vision-and-Language Navigationcited by 0
  11. 2026NavGPT-3: Harnessing Context in a Hierarchical Navigation Runtimecited by 0

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