Navigating to objects in the real world

Empirical study: We evaluated three approaches for robots to navigate to objects in six visually diverse homes. TLDR: Semantic navigation is necessary to deploy mobile robots in uncontrolled environments like our homes, schools, and hospitals. Many learning-based approaches have been proposed in response to the lack of semantic understanding of the classical pipeline for spatial navigation. But learned visual navigation policies have predominantly been evaluated in simulation. How well do different classes of methods work on a robot? We present …

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