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Oct 17, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

HA-VLN 2.0: Benchmarking Socially-Aware Navigation in Dynamic Human Environments

Researchers from UW, CMU, NUS, and Microsoft Research introduce HA-VLN 2.0, a benchmark for vision-language navigation that incorporates dynamic human movements, multi-person interactions, and social constraints across discrete and continuous environments, featuring the HAPS 2.0 dataset with 172 activity types and HA-R2R with 16,844 enriched instructions, plus baselines and real-robot validation on a Unitree Go2.