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Qwen-RobotNav Technical Report: A Scalable Navigation Model Designed for an Agentic Navigation System

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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.

Jiazhao Zhang, Gengze Zhou, Hale Yin, Yiyang Huang, Zixing Lei, Qihang Peng, Haoqi Yuan, Jie Zhang, Xudong Guo, Xiaoyue Chen, An Yang, Fei Huang, Zhibo Yang, Junyang Lin, Dayiheng Liu, Jingren Zhou, Zhuoyuan Yu, Jingyang Fan, Zhixuan Liang, Pei Lin, Ye Wang, Haoyang Li, Anzhe Chen, Kun Yan, Xiao Xu, Jiahao Li, Lulu Hu, Minying Zhang, Shurui Li, Wenhu Xiao, Shuai Bai, Xuancheng Ren, Chenxu Lv, Chenfei Wu, Xiong-Hui Chen• 2026

Related benchmarks

TaskDatasetResultRank
Vision-Language NavigationRxR-CE (val-unseen)
SR76.5
512
Vision-and-Language NavigationR2R (val unseen)
Success Rate (SR)65.5
476
Vision-Language NavigationVLN-CE R2R (val unseen)
Navigation Error (NE)3.53
76
Trajectory PlanningNAVSIM (test)
NC99.8
38
Open-Vocabulary Object Goal NavigationHM3D-OVON (val-seen)
SR57.7
29
Embodied Question AnsweringHM-EQA
Steps0.15
14
Fine-grained Vision-Language NavigationVLNVerse (test)
TL7.99
14
Coarse-grained Vision-Language NavigationVLNVerse (test)
TL7.39
14
Active visual trackingEVT-Bench Single Target single-view
TR90
11
Embodied Question AnsweringMT-HM3D
Steps0.19
10
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