Review request:
As usual for the time of year, I'll be looking for #IROS2026 reviewers. Highly interesting stack of papers on #ReinforcementLearning #Sim2Real #RewardLearning #LLMs #DataEfficiency #RoboticManipulation

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Sim‑to‑Real Transfer Boosted by Online Imitation Pretraining

A new hybrid pipeline combines online imitation pretraining in simulation with offline finetuning on limited real demos, raising robot success rates by 31.7% in sim‑to‑sim and 23.3% in sim‑to‑real transfer. getnews.me/sim-to-real-transfer-boo... #sim2real

PolySim Reduces Sim-to-Real Gap for Humanoid Control

PolySim trains policies across multiple simulators, achieving a 52.8% higher success rate on MuJoCo than IsaacSim-only training and enabling zero‑shot transfer to a Unitree G1 quadruped. Read more: getnews.me/polysim-reduces-sim-to-r... #polysim #sim2real #robotics

I’d planned on bringing it to life with my robots and my newly acquired dual carriage linear rail….it showed up to the studio on Monday…trying to go #Sim2Real

And thanks to all the organizers for working together to make this a successful workshop! Including
@egavves.bsky.social @cgumbsch.bsky.social @yunzhu-li.bsky.social @zadaianchuk.bsky.social
+ many others!

#CoRL2025 #sim2real #real2sim #robotworldmodels #robotics

🚦Who likes to spend a long time stuck in traffic? 🚗

Traffic signal control management helps reduce waiting times by actively managing flows, while ensuring safe intersection navigation.

Learn more: t.co/gWOSh78eEk

#Robotics #Sim2Real #TrafficControl #SmartCities

*You're allowing ten zillion simulated robots to train themselves in LLM and then shoehorning the results into an existent metal device #Sim2Real

*That's a pretty far cry from "traditional control systems"

*This robotics issue called "Sim2Real" seems more general than one might think, as in, "How come my real-life Real romance varies radically from this cute Sim romance in this 2hr romcom movie" #Sim2Real

Learning in simulation and practicing in the real world; sounds easy enough, right?

Learn more: t.co/og0QEs11el

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🤖 Get your #Duckiebot and #Duckiedrone - t.co/ENNbwCZqx4

#Duckietown #Sim2Real #RobotAutonomy t.co/MAlNzkTNc9

Discovering New Scaling Laws in Computational Materials Research A groundbreaking study links large computational databases and experimental data, unveiling new scaling laws in materials research and AI training.

Discovering New Scaling Laws in Computational Materials Research #Japan #Tokyo #Materials_Research #Scaling_Law #Sim2Real

Robots with Empathy, with Dr. Angelica Lim YouTube video by Women in AI Research WiAIR

Listen to Dr. Angelica Lim on our latest WiAIR episode:
🎬 YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=Z8VB...
🎙️ Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/r...
🎧 Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/4uUm...
#WiAIR #EmotionRecognition #Sim2Real #HRI #AIResearch #WomenInAI #Robotics

Robust DexGrasp — a new benchmark for dexterous robotic grasping with 94.6% success on 500+ unseen objects using single-view perception. Robust to object shifts and external forces.

zdchan.github.io/Robust_DexGr...
#Robotics #DexterousManipulation #Sim2Real #ReinforcementLearning #RobotGrasping

🧪 Not all simulations are equal! How useful are they for real robots?

Anthony Courchesne, Andrea Censi and Liam Paull propose:

📊 PRPV – Proxy Predictivity

🤖 PLV – Proxy Learning

🔍Learn more: t.co/y8Y6eRXoTz

#Sim2Real #AI #Robotics 🚀 t.co/XWh2hS8HAI

Deep reinforcement and transfer learning for autonomous robots, how does it work? 🤔

Find out more: t.co/x42FlhLm8e

🤖 Get your Duckiebot and Duckiedrone - t.co/p6XbHk78wr

#Robotics #AI #DeepReinforcementLearning #TransferLearning #Sim2Real t.co/kKW3qLURNX

Evaluating Text-to-Image Diffusion Models for Texturing Synthetic Data

Authors: Thomas Lips, Francis wyffels

pre-print -> arxiv.org/abs/2411.10164
code -> github.com/tlpss/diffus...

#robotics #diffusion #sim2real #data_generation

RoboGSim: A Real2Sim2Real Robotic Gaussian Splatting Simulator
Authors: Xinhai Li, Jialin Li et al.
pre-print -> arxiv.org/abs/2411.11839
website -> robogsim.github.io

#robotics #data_generation #sim2real #real2sim #real2sim2real

How Agility Robotics crosses the Sim2Real gap with NVIDIA Isaac Lab - The Robot Report Agility Robotics gives insight into how it trains its humanoid robot Digit in simulation using NVIDIA's robotics tools.

How Agility Robotics crosses the Sim2Real gap with NVIDIA Isaac Lab
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www.therobotreport.com/how-agility-...
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#Robotics #Robots #Sim2Real #Nvidia #IsaacAsimov