ResearchResearch paperRobotics & Embodied AI1 source · Oct 14, 2026

Reflect After Failure: Brain-Inspired Self-Evolving Agents for Embodied Spatial Intelligence

To address this, we propose HiMeco, a brain-inspired self-evolving agent for embodied spatial intelligence, inspired by metacognitive monitoring and hippocampal memory consolidation.

Key points

  • Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have made substantial progress in spatial reasoning, and self-evolving agents further extend these capabilities to embodied environments by learning from interactions.
  • However, current self-evolution remains particularly challenging in embodied spatial tasks, complex and multi-step decisions from partial visual evidence making it difficult to determine why an execution fails.
  • Through Hippocampal-Metacognitive Reflection, HiMeco diagnoses failures in perception-exploration-planning (PEP), then compares execution attempts to derive reusable strategies and guidance for avoiding recurring errors.
  • These strategies and skills guide subsequent interactions, with memory updated only between rounds and model parameters kept frozen.

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  • [1]Reflect After Failure: Brain-Inspired Self-Evolving Agents for Embodied Spatial Intelligence
    arXiv (AI, ML, NLP, CV, robotics, multi-agent) · Oct 14, 02:59 PM
    To address this, we propose HiMeco, a brain-inspired self-evolving agent for embodied spatial intelligence, inspired by metacognitive monitoring and hippocampal memory consolidation.
    Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have made substantial progress in spatial reasoning, and self-evolving agents further extend these capabilities to embodied environments by learning from interactions.

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