Mistral AI has announced 'Robostral Navigate,' a navigation AI for robots that can handle natural language instructions such as 'Turn right before the locker.'

French AI company Mistral AI has announced ' Robostral Navigate, ' an AI model for automated robot navigation. By integrating Robostral Navigate into robots, it becomes possible to give movement instructions in natural language, such as 'Turn right before the lockers and go straight to the orange sofa.'

Robostral Navigate: single-camera AI navigation | Mistral AI

Announcing Robostral Navigate, our first model for embodied navigation: an 8B robotics navigation model that guides robots to autonomously perform tasks specified with natural language. Single RGB camera. State-of-the-art on R2R-CE. pic.twitter.com/UlmUsXNxhX

— Mistral AI (@MistralAI) July 8, 2026

Introducing Robostral Navigation - YouTube


Building a robot navigation system often requires advanced sensors such as LiDAR. Robostral Navigate can perform navigation based on natural language instructions and RGB images captured by a camera. The model has 8 billion parameters.

By integrating Robostral Navigate into a robot, it becomes possible to automatically determine a route based on natural language instructions such as 'turn right before the lockers, then turn left and go straight to the orange sofa,' along with camera images.

It can also automatically avoid obstacles.

High-precision navigation is possible regardless of the robot's size. It supports three modes of movement: wheeled, walking, and flying.

The graph below compares the navigation success rates of various AI models. Mistral AI offers more accurate navigation compared to models from other companies.

Mistral AI will continue its research to improve robot navigation capabilities, aiming to achieve autonomous navigation in diverse environments such as offices and outdoors.