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Schrödinger's Navigator zero-shot object navigation framework accepted by CoRL 2026

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Yu He et al. propose Schrödinger's Navigator, a belief-aware framework for zero-shot object navigation (ZSON), accepted by CoRL 2026. At inference time, the framework reasons over trajectory-conditioned imagined 3D futures generated from multiple candidate paths, rather than prematurely converging on a single map. The paper reports that simulation and physical Go2 quadruped robot experiments show the method outperforms strong ZSON baselines, improving hidden-target discovery and risk-aware waypoint selection in navigation scenarios with heavy occlusion. Zero-shot object navigation requires a robot to find a target object in an unknown environment without task-specific fine-tuning and without a pre-built map.