Researchers introduce episodic memory and persistent world models to equip AI agents with sustained curiosity for extended 3D environment exploration

— Habitat simulator demos use 3D Gaussian Splatting with open-source code released

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OPAT#1464Andrea Tagliasacchi 🇨🇦|@TAIYASAKI

Check out this beautiful work by Lily on how to learn to explore with curiosity! Today is a 3DGS… tomorrow it’ll be a video model. Today is in habitat… tomorrow it’ll be deployed in real robots. The story… unchanged.

8:03 PM · May 21, 2026 View on X

QUOTE POSTVS#708Vincent Sitzmann|@VINCESITZMANN

Cool work on curiosity adapted for 3D reconstruction and exploration, very fun :)

3:40 AM · May 22, 2026 · 4.4K Views