Stanford's MessyMem gives robots long-horizon memory: 80% progress over 25 tasks spanning 3+ hours
leto__jean · x · 2026-09-17
Stanford researchers introduce MessyMem, a persistent memory system for mobile manipulation accepted to CoRL 2026, which lets robots learn from doing and reuse that knowledge instead of re-exploring each task.
- Architecture: a globally queryable, spatially grounded 3D scene graph, updated with properties and outcomes learned through interactions, plus linked visual keyframes for fine-grained recall.
- Ablations: removing keyframes drops cluttered pick to 58%; removing interaction analysis drops locked cabinets to 43%; combining scene graph + interactions + keyframes reaches 84% and 99%.
- Main result: 80.0% task progress across 25 continuous simulation tasks spanning 3+ hours, beating the strongest ablation by 14.8 points and the best external baseline by 28.9 points, retrieving relevant evidence from thousands of keyframes up to an hour old.
Validated both in simulation and on a real mobile manipulator.
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