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3 Papers at ICLR'26.

All three of our submissions were accepted to ICLR 2026! A fantastic accomplishment by our CLeAR members and collaborators. Here’s a snapshot: Know ...

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Multiple Postdoc and Research Assistant positions are open.

Introducing Dr. Alvin Heng!

Alvin Heng has graduated and is now Dr. Heng. Congratulations Alvin!

Arena 5.0 – A Photorealistic ROS2 Simulation Framework for Social Navigation with NVIDIA Isaac Gym

We introduce Arena 5.0, the fifth iteration of the Arena platform, featuring photorealistic simulation via NVIDIA Isaac Gym, comprehensive benchmarking, and customizable scenario generation!

GeNIE for In-the-Wild Navigation

We present a robust navigation framework designed for global deployment that achieved first place in the Earth Rover Challenge at ICRA 2025.

Arena 4.0 - A Comprehensive ROS2 Development and Benchmarking Platform for Human-centric Navigation Using Generative-Model-based Environment Generation

We introduce the fourth iteration of the Arena platform - Arena 4.0, a platform to develop, train, and benchmark social navigation approaches with generative model–based environment generation!

DISCO: Language-Guided Manipulation with Diffusion Policies and Constrained Inpainting

DISCO uses vision-language models to guide diffusion policies with optimized keyframe inpainting, enabling superior zero-shot open-vocabulary robotic manipulation.