SimWorld-Robotics: Synthesizing Photorealistic and Dynamic Urban Environments for Multimodal Robot Navigation and Collaboration

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Autori principali: Zhuang, Yan, Ren, Jiawei, Ye, Xiaokang, Shen, Jianzhi, Zhang, Ruixuan, Yue, Tianai, Faayez, Muhammad, He, Xuhong, Ma, Ziqiao, Qin, Lianhui, Hu, Zhiting, Shu, Tianmin
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author Zhuang, Yan
Ren, Jiawei
Ye, Xiaokang
Shen, Jianzhi
Zhang, Ruixuan
Yue, Tianai
Faayez, Muhammad
He, Xuhong
Ma, Ziqiao
Qin, Lianhui
Hu, Zhiting
Shu, Tianmin
author_facet Zhuang, Yan
Ren, Jiawei
Ye, Xiaokang
Shen, Jianzhi
Zhang, Ruixuan
Yue, Tianai
Faayez, Muhammad
He, Xuhong
Ma, Ziqiao
Qin, Lianhui
Hu, Zhiting
Shu, Tianmin
contents Recent advances in foundation models have shown promising results in developing generalist robotics that can perform diverse tasks in open-ended scenarios given multimodal inputs. However, current work has been mainly focused on indoor, household scenarios. In this work, we present SimWorld-Robotics~(SWR), a simulation platform for embodied AI in large-scale, photorealistic urban environments. Built on Unreal Engine 5, SWR procedurally generates unlimited photorealistic urban scenes populated with dynamic elements such as pedestrians and traffic systems, surpassing prior urban simulations in realism, complexity, and scalability. It also supports multi-robot control and communication. With these key features, we build two challenging robot benchmarks: (1) a multimodal instruction-following task, where a robot must follow vision-language navigation instructions to reach a destination in the presence of pedestrians and traffic; and (2) a multi-agent search task, where two robots must communicate to cooperatively locate and meet each other. Unlike existing benchmarks, these two new benchmarks comprehensively evaluate a wide range of critical robot capacities in realistic scenarios, including (1) multimodal instructions grounding, (2) 3D spatial reasoning in large environments, (3) safe, long-range navigation with people and traffic, (4) multi-robot collaboration, and (5) grounded communication. Our experimental results demonstrate that state-of-the-art models, including vision-language models (VLMs), struggle with our tasks, lacking robust perception, reasoning, and planning abilities necessary for urban environments.
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spellingShingle SimWorld-Robotics: Synthesizing Photorealistic and Dynamic Urban Environments for Multimodal Robot Navigation and Collaboration
Zhuang, Yan
Ren, Jiawei
Ye, Xiaokang
Shen, Jianzhi
Zhang, Ruixuan
Yue, Tianai
Faayez, Muhammad
He, Xuhong
Ma, Ziqiao
Qin, Lianhui
Hu, Zhiting
Shu, Tianmin
Artificial Intelligence
Recent advances in foundation models have shown promising results in developing generalist robotics that can perform diverse tasks in open-ended scenarios given multimodal inputs. However, current work has been mainly focused on indoor, household scenarios. In this work, we present SimWorld-Robotics~(SWR), a simulation platform for embodied AI in large-scale, photorealistic urban environments. Built on Unreal Engine 5, SWR procedurally generates unlimited photorealistic urban scenes populated with dynamic elements such as pedestrians and traffic systems, surpassing prior urban simulations in realism, complexity, and scalability. It also supports multi-robot control and communication. With these key features, we build two challenging robot benchmarks: (1) a multimodal instruction-following task, where a robot must follow vision-language navigation instructions to reach a destination in the presence of pedestrians and traffic; and (2) a multi-agent search task, where two robots must communicate to cooperatively locate and meet each other. Unlike existing benchmarks, these two new benchmarks comprehensively evaluate a wide range of critical robot capacities in realistic scenarios, including (1) multimodal instructions grounding, (2) 3D spatial reasoning in large environments, (3) safe, long-range navigation with people and traffic, (4) multi-robot collaboration, and (5) grounded communication. Our experimental results demonstrate that state-of-the-art models, including vision-language models (VLMs), struggle with our tasks, lacking robust perception, reasoning, and planning abilities necessary for urban environments.
title SimWorld-Robotics: Synthesizing Photorealistic and Dynamic Urban Environments for Multimodal Robot Navigation and Collaboration
topic Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.10046