Qwen-RobotNav Technical Report: A Scalable Navigation Model Designed for an Agentic Navigation System
About
Agentic navigation systems require a base navigation model whose observation strategy can be externally reconfigured at inference time, because instruction following, object search, target tracking, and autonomous driving share the same perception-planning backbone yet demand fundamentally different strategies for consuming the visual stream. We present Qwen-RobotNav, a scalable navigation model built on Qwen-RobotNav that addresses it through a parameterised interface with two complementary dimensions: multiple task modes that select the navigation behaviour, and controllable observation parameters (e.g., token budget, per-camera weights) that govern how visual history is encoded. With training-time randomization over all parameters, Qwen-RobotNav is robust to any inference-time configuration requiring zero architectural modification to the Qwen-RobotNav backbone. We train Qwen-RobotNav on 15.6M samples; co-training with vision-language data prevents the collapse into reactive action-sequence mappers observed in trajectory-only training. The parameterised interface also makes Qwen-RobotNav a natural building block for agentic systems: for long-horizon scenarios, an upper-level planner decomposes goals into sub-tasks and dynamically switches Qwen-RobotNav's task mode and context strategy mid-episode, composing complex behaviours from repeated calls to the same model. Extensive experiments show that Qwen-RobotNav sets new state-of-the-art results across major navigation benchmarks. The model exhibits favourable scaling from 2B to 8B parameters, with joint multi-task training developing a shared spatial-planning substrate that transfers across task families, and demonstrates strong zero-shot generalisation to real-world robots across diverse environments.
Related benchmarks
| Task | Dataset | Result | Rank | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vision-Language Navigation | RxR-CE (val-unseen) | SR76.5 | 512 | |
| Vision-and-Language Navigation | R2R (val unseen) | Success Rate (SR)65.5 | 476 | |
| Vision-Language Navigation | VLN-CE R2R (val unseen) | Navigation Error (NE)3.53 | 76 | |
| Trajectory Planning | NAVSIM (test) | NC99.8 | 38 | |
| Open-Vocabulary Object Goal Navigation | HM3D-OVON (val-seen) | SR57.7 | 29 | |
| Embodied Question Answering | HM-EQA | Steps0.15 | 14 | |
| Fine-grained Vision-Language Navigation | VLNVerse (test) | TL7.99 | 14 | |
| Coarse-grained Vision-Language Navigation | VLNVerse (test) | TL7.39 | 14 | |
| Active visual tracking | EVT-Bench Single Target single-view | TR90 | 11 | |
| Embodied Question Answering | MT-HM3D | Steps0.19 | 10 |