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Embodied AI
Mistral's tiny 8B model just made lidar optional for office robots
Mistral AI's Robostral Navigate is an 8B model that uses only one RGB camera to achieve 76.6% on R2R-CE benchmarks, outperforming multi-sensor approaches by 4.5 points. Built with simulated data and a token-efficient prefix-caching method, it generalizes across robot types and adapts to unseen obstacles.
2026-07-17