AI can recognize objects, but it still struggles with simple spatial questions like “Is the water bottle on the left or right of the person?” or “Can the robot reach that?” One of our NeurIPS 2025 papers, co-authored by Lambda researcher Jianwen Xie, introduces SpatialReasoner (https://lnkd.in/eedGehAv), a vision-language model that’s equipped with explicit 3D representation and generalized 3D thinking for spatial reasoning. This opens the door to AI that can move through real spaces, assist in homes, collaborate safely with humans, and understand environments the way people do, rather than as flat images. #NeurIPS2025
