You probably don't need a geometric map. Just have someone wander around with a mobile app and feed the video into a more powerful model once, asking it to produce descriptions of the different areas of the office or building and how they connect. Now you have a "text adventure game" map you can use it with a small LLM to produce instructions for the robot to follow, assuming it knows where it currently is.
replyThe advantage over traditional approaches is presumably flexibility. LIDAR isn't going to solve an instruction like "find the man with the pink shirt".
Yeah the benefits of a model that can understand text well enough is certainly that one could in theory just describe the layout. Just let it know what connects to what, what's on each floor, etc. Might work if it can figure out where it is based on contextual info, but probably not super well yet I imagine. VLAs are known to have very little text context, like sentences worth at most, maybe this one's different.
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