NaviTrace: Evaluating Embodied Navigation of Vision-Language Models

NaviTrace is a novel VQA benchmark for VLMs that evaluates models on their embodiment-specific understanding of navigation across challenging real-world scenarios.

Tim Windecker, Manthan Patel, Moritz Reuss, Richard Schwarzkopf, Cesar Cadena, Rudolf Lioutikov, Marco Hutter, Jonas Frey
October 30, 2025 — IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation 2026 (ICRA)