2025

H. Wang, A.H. Tan, A. Fung, G. Nejat, “X-Nav: Learning End-to-End Cross-Embodiment Navigation for Mobile Robots,” IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), Accepted October 2025. Paper Webpage

Y. Li, N. Liang and G. Nejat "How Emotional Dances with Social Robots Influence Group HRI for Older Adults" ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction, Accepted October 2025.

N. Liang, Y. Li, G. Nejat, "Distance Does Not Matter: The Role of Physical Robot Presence in Social HRI with Older Adults,"  Preprint

A. H. Tan, A. Fung, H. Wang, G. Nejat “Mobile Robot Navigation Using Hand-Drawn Maps: A Vision Language Model Approach,” IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), vol. 10, no. 7, pp. 7667-7674, July 2025. Paper

S. Narasimhan, A. H. Tan, D. Choi, G. Nejat, “OLiVia-Nav: An Online Lifelong Vision Language Approach for Mobile Robot Social Navigation,” IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Accepted 2025. Paper

A. Fung, A. H. Tan, H. Wang, B. Benhabib, and G. Nejat, “MLLM-Search: A Zero-Shot Approach to Finding People using Multimodal Large Language Models,” Robotics, 4(8):102, 2025. https://doi.org/10.3390/robotics14080102.

C. Getson and G. Nejat, “The Game Changer: The Role of Persuasive Socially Assistive Robots in the Sustained Engagement and Motivation of Older Adults in a Cognitive Activity,” Preprint.