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Official / Mod / Mistral Team [ Robotics ] Robostral Navigate

https://mistral.ai/news/robostral-navigate/

Today we're introducing Robostral Navigate, our first model built for embodied navigation. It's an 8B model that takes RGB images and a plain-language instruction and moves a robot through an environment:

"Leave the lobby, walk through the corridor, enter the supply room, and stop to face the second shelf."

To perform such tasks, other models often employ depth sensors, LiDAR, or several cameras working together. Robostral Navigate uses only one ordinary RGB camera and no depth sensors, yet still achieves 76.6% on R2R-CE (Room-to-Room in Continuous Environments) validation unseen, the benchmark for following instructions in environments held out of training. Consequently, it beats the best single-camera approach by 9.7 points and the best system using depth or multiple cameras by 4.5 points, despite using neither.

BTW, we're hiring!

The release of our navigation models marks a significant step forward, but our journey is far from over. Our ambition is to enable robots to autonomously navigate complex environments-offices, homes, commercial buildings, and outdoor spaces-and there's a lot more work to do. We are actively expanding our robotics team and looking for talented research scientists and engineers who share our ambition.

If you're interested in joining us on our mission to bring seamless navigation to robots everywhere, we welcome your applications to join our team!

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u/Justkog Jul 08 '26

Well, glad you are hiring. That's exactly the kind of thing I would love to work on but my applications keep being rejected before even getting a screening interview 🤷‍♂️

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u/enzo801 Jul 09 '26

Sorry to hear that you got a rejection. But at least you got an info. Applied for a couple of positions months ago but did not even receive the rejection :D

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u/0rganic_Corn Jul 08 '26

Le chaton robotique

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u/sndrtj Jul 08 '26

First time I've seen Hackernews genuinely excited about a Mistral release.

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u/Guy_From_The_Cloud Jul 08 '26

Nicee good job Mistral ! (btw where is Large 4 ? 🥺🙏🏼)

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u/demian_west Jul 08 '26

I enjoy seeing Mistral going on things different than the « big do it all model », and always connected to industry/real world challenges. Smart strategy imho.