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Bogong moths use a stellar compass for long-distance navigation at night: #moth makes its epic migration navigating by starlight: https://www.science.org/content/article/moth-makes-its-epic-migration-navigating-starlight - Bogong moths fly 1000 kilometers orienting to stars and the Milky Way, an ability never seen before in invertebrates.

19.000 Kilometer dichter dran: US-Startup will GPS-Alternative liefern
Das US-Startup Xona Space Systems plant eine erdnahe GPS-Alternative. 258 Satelliten sollen präzisere und störungsresistentere Navigationsdaten liefern.

FFI-VTR: Lightweight and Robust Visual Teach and Repeat Navigation based on Feature Flow Indicator and Probabilistic Motion Planning
Jikai Wang, Yunqi Cheng, Zonghai Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12800

FFI-VTR: Lightweight and Robust Visual Teach and Repeat Navigation based on Feature Flow Indicator and Probabilistic Motion Planning
Though visual and repeat navigation is a convenient solution for mobile robot self-navigation, achieving balance between efficiency and robustness in task environment still remains challenges. In this paper, we propose a novel visual and repeat robotic autonomous navigation method that requires no accurate localization and dense reconstruction modules, which makes our system featured by lightweight and robustness. Firstly, feature flow is introduced and we develop a qualitative mapping between …

SE-VLN: A Self-Evolving Vision-Language Navigation Framework Based on Multimodal Large Language Models
Xiangyu Dong, Haoran Zhao, Jiang Gao, Haozhou Li, Xiaoguang Ma, Yaoming Zhou, Fuhai Chen, Juan Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13152

SE-VLN: A Self-Evolving Vision-Language Navigation Framework Based on Multimodal Large Language Models
Recent advances in vision-language navigation (VLN) were mainly attributed to emerging large language models (LLMs). These methods exhibited excellent generalization capabilities in instruction understanding and task reasoning. However, they were constrained by the fixed knowledge bases and reasoning abilities of LLMs, preventing fully incorporating experiential knowledge and thus resulting in a lack of efficient evolutionary capacity. To address this, we drew inspiration from the evolution cap…

How many voters really care about Jeffrey Epstein? (Douglas Murray/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/07/17/opinion/how-many-voters-really-care-about-jeffrey-epstein/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250718/p26#a250718p26

Socially Aware Robot Crowd Navigation via Online Uncertainty-Driven Risk Adaptation
Zhirui Sun, Xingrong Diao, Yao Wang, Bi-Ke Zhu, Jiankun Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14305

Socially Aware Robot Crowd Navigation via Online Uncertainty-Driven Risk Adaptation
Navigation in human-robot shared crowded environments remains challenging, as robots are expected to move efficiently while respecting human motion conventions. However, many existing approaches emphasize safety or efficiency while overlooking social awareness. This article proposes Learning-Risk Model Predictive Control (LR-MPC), a data-driven navigation algorithm that balances efficiency, safety, and social awareness. LR-MPC consists of two phases: an offline risk learning phase, where a Prob…

A Demonstration of Interstellar Navigation Using #NewHorizons: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/addabe -> Spacecraft can navigate using light from just two stars: https://physicsworld.com/a/spacecraft-can-navigate-using-light-from-just-two-stars/

Paramount delays $35M settlement with Trump as media giant fears bribery backlash: sources (Charles Gasparino/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/06/19/media/paramount-delays-35m-settlement-with-trump-sources/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250619/p72#a250619p72

Can Pretrained Vision-Language Embeddings Alone Guide Robot Navigation?
Nitesh Subedi, Adam Haroon, Shreyan Ganguly, Samuel T. K. Tetteh, Prajwal Koirala, Cody Fleming, Soumik Sarkar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14507

Can Pretrained Vision-Language Embeddings Alone Guide Robot Navigation?
Foundation models have revolutionized robotics by providing rich semantic representations without task-specific training. While many approaches integrate pretrained vision-language models (VLMs) with specialized navigation architectures, the fundamental question remains: can these pretrained embeddings alone successfully guide navigation without additional fine-tuning or specialized modules? We present a minimalist framework that decouples this question by training a behavior cloning policy dir…

Andrew Cuomo says he 'will move to Florida' if Zohran Mamdani becomes NYC mayor (New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/07/19/us-news/cuomo-i-will-move-to-florida-god-forbid-if-mamdani-become-nyc-mayor/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250719/p53#a250719p53