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Sep 15, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

REAL: Embodied Agents Navigate Open Worlds Without Oracle Perception or Perfect Instructions

Researchers from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Shanghai AI Lab introduce REAL, an ECCV 2026 framework that enables embodied agents to actively explore unknown environments, disambiguate vague user instructions through dialogue, and execute mobile manipulation tasks via a unified MCP tool interface, achieving 78.3% real-world success on a dual-arm robot.