The organisation also announced it is actively expanding the robotics team and is looking to recruit talented research scientists and engineers.
France’s Mistral AI has announced the launch of a new robotics navigation model, as the company further expands in the physical AI space, following deals with a number of key players in Europe’s industrial and manufacturing sector, such as Airbus SE and BMW.
The new 8B model, Robostral Navigate, allows robots to autonomously move around in complex environments via a single RGB camera and basic language prompts. Combining pointing-based navigation with continuous learning elements, the hardware is also agnostic meaning it can be deployed across any robotics fleet.
Mistral claims that the model, prompted by a single instruction, can complete the entire task on its own, moving through a live space full of people and obstacles it was never shown, adapting to any setting. Spaces in which it can be used includes offices, residential and commercial buildings and outdoor settings.
In a post announcing the launch, Mistral said, “We leverage our knowledge of post-training LLMs at scale, using online reinforcement learning, to boost the performance of Robostral Navigate. After the supervised training stage, we further improve the model’s performance using CISPO, an online reinforcement learning algorithm.
