arxivcs.RO2026-06-26
LocalNav: Distilling Frontier VLMs and Embodied RL for On-Device Object Goal Navigation
Nicolas Baumann, Liam Boyle, Pu Deng, Edoardo Ghignone, Boyang Sun, Marc Pollefeys, et al.
Vision Language Models (VLMs) have emerged in the robotic domain as a powerful tool that enables environmental perception with language context, serving as a catalyst for open-vocabulary tasks like ObjectNav. Yet, their computational footprint typically confines them to cloud exe…