# StopWatch: A Goal-Explicit Grounding Method for Object-Goal Navigation

- Source: arXiv cs.RO
- Published: 2026-10-19T04:00:00.000Z
- RoboHot: https://robohot.news/en/items/j04ru3ubiqdpqjdvoqhtf2jgj
- Original: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.23841

## Summary

The StopWatch paper diagnoses goal grounding as the main failure cause of current object-goal navigation policies based on vision-language models (VLMs): these policies explore well but often fail to notice that the goal is already in view or to estimate its distance.