Compass 1 navigation foundation model hits 79.4% success in 320 real-world trials, zero-shot transfers to 4 robot types
abursuc · x · 2026-11-11
Archon Robotics, with University of Hong Kong, Shanghai Innovation Institute, Spatial Robotics and Huawei, released Compass 1, a foundation model for real-world navigation. Using sparse visual observations from a single RGB camera plus a spatial history map, it reasons over nearly two minutes of visual history and can navigate back to landmarks no longer in sight.
- 79.4% success rate across 320 real-world trials on the Unitree Go2 quadruped, vs 17.8% for the strongest baseline
- Zero-shot transfer (no fine-tuning) to the Booster K1 humanoid, an AgileX wheeled robot evaluated by Huawei, and a drone tested in flight
Backed by partners including Unitree, Booster Robotics and OpenDriveLab, with paper and code released, it aims at general-purpose navigation that remembers, explores and generalizes.
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