Seeing Together:Multi-Robot Cooperative Egocentric Spatial Reasoning with Multimodal Large Language Models

2026-05-18 · Source: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Field: Technology & Digital — Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Robotics & Autonomous Systems, Emerging Technologies & Innovation · Depth: Expert, quick

Summary

A new benchmark and framework, CoopSR and SP-CoR, address multi-robot cooperative dynamic spatial reasoning using Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs). CoopSR is the first benchmark for this task, supported by EgoTeam, a multi-robot egocentric QA dataset. EgoTeam comprises 114,227 QA pairs across 19 question types, four difficulty tiers, and three team sizes in simulated environments like Habitat and iGibson, plus a real-world test set of 2,326 QAs from two quadruped robots. The proposed SP-CoR framework enhances MLLMs for fine-grained cooperative spatial reasoning by integrating dynamics-aware multi-robot frame sampling, spectral- and physics-guided view fusion, and physics-aligned prompt distillation. SP-CoR improves cooperative reasoning by +3.87% on Habitat and +7.12% on iGibson compared to the strongest fine-tuned baseline, demonstrating better generalization to unseen team sizes and real-world scenarios.

Key takeaway

For Computer Vision Engineers developing multi-robot systems, this research indicates that MLLMs, particularly with frameworks like SP-CoR, can significantly enhance cooperative spatial reasoning. You should consider integrating dynamics-aware view fusion and physics-aligned prompt distillation into your MLLM architectures to improve performance and generalization in complex, dynamic multi-robot environments, especially when dealing with varied team sizes and real-world deployments.

Key insights

MLLMs can achieve cooperative spatial reasoning by integrating synchronized egocentric videos from multiple robots.

Principles

• Integrate multi-robot egocentric videos for cooperative reasoning.
• Physics-informed guidance improves MLLM spatial reasoning.

Method

SP-CoR uses dynamics-aware multi-robot frame sampling, spectral- and physics-guided view fusion, and physics-aligned prompt distillation to enhance MLLM cooperative spatial reasoning.

In practice

• Utilize EgoTeam for multi-robot egocentric QA training.
• Apply SP-CoR for improved multi-robot coordination.

Topics

• Multimodal Large Language Models
• Multi-Robot Cooperative Reasoning
• Egocentric Spatial Reasoning
• SP-CoR Framework
• EgoTeam Dataset

Code references

• KPeng9510/seeing-together

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