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This paper presents a sim-to-real transfer approach for Vision-Language Navigation in continuous environments, using a Cross-Modal Attention architecture fine-tuned with real-world data from a custom Ackermann-steered robot equipped with camera and LiDAR, achieving effective offline navigation without relying on navigation graphs or panoramic views.
Singaporean startup Strutt launched the ev¹, a self-driving "smart everyday vehicle" with four motors, obstacle avoidance, and waypoint mapping — deliberately marketed as a non-wheelchair to dodge FDA Class II medical device regulation. Trade-offs include no insurance coverage and a battery not yet cleared for air travel, with pricing at $7,500.
A paper proposing FLISP, a mapless path planning framework for cooperative UGV-UAV tunnel inspection using a single LiDAR-IMU suite, achieving 100% success rate and 7ms latency in a 1.2km tunnel.
A Chinese company called Yueban debuted an autonomous self-driving toilet named Xiaoban designed to assist those with mobility issues by using lidar and sensors to navigate to users and handle cleaning and waste disposal.
WebChallenger is a new web agent framework that achieves strong performance across multiple benchmarks using open-weight models without fine-tuning, by replicating human cognitive advantages through architecture design rather than model scale.