ResearchResearch paperRobotics & Embodied AI1 source · Oct 15, 2026

Spatial Memory by Agents, for Agents

Spatial memory enables robots to reuse past observations for localization, navigation, and question answering.

Key points

  • Designing such memory involves jointly deciding what to retain and how to retrieve it for diverse semantic, metric, and temporal needs.
  • We investigate whether coding agents can automate this design process through iterative implementation and evaluation.
  • Under a fixed development budget, a Designer Agent writes and revises code for memory construction and retrieval using feedback from a fixed Query Agent.
  • These results demonstrate the potential of coding agents to automate spatial memory design, while revealing task-dependent trade-offs in performance and computational cost.

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  • [1]Spatial Memory by Agents, for Agents
    arXiv (AI, ML, NLP, CV, robotics, multi-agent) · Oct 15, 11:13 PM
    Spatial memory enables robots to reuse past observations for localization, navigation, and question answering.
    Designing such memory involves jointly deciding what to retain and how to retrieve it for diverse semantic, metric, and temporal needs.

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