AI RESEARCH

IntentionNav: A Benchmark for Intent-Driven Object Navigation from Implicit Human Instruction

arXiv CS.CV

ArXi:2605.23187v1 Announce Type: new Existing object navigation benchmarks usually tell an embodied agent which object category to find, such as microwave or chair. Human-facing embodied AI is often asked something less direct: "I need something to warm this food" or "the room feels stuffy." The agent must infer the object that can satisfy the need, find a scene-grounded instance, and decide whether the goal has been reached. We study this setting as intent-driven object navigation and