Excited to share FreeForm☁️: Reduced-Order Deformable Simulation from Particle-Based... Skinning Eigenmodes at #CVPR2026 FreeForm enables fast elastodynamic simulation for robotics and beyond, directly on messy data (no mesh needed)!show more

Yeah! Teleoperation on low-cost robot arm from Tau Robotics... working natively at 200Hz with and a very simple code. We are working a video tutorial to make it easy for anyone to reproduce our setup (in simulation or with a real robot). Stay tuned 😋show more

#NVIDIAIsaac Sim 5.0 and Isaac Lab 2.2 are now... available in early developer preview on Github. 🎉 These releases give #Robotics developers early access to cutting-edge tools to simulate, train, and validate robots in a physics-based simulation environment. What’s new? ✅Open-source ✅Extensions for synthetic data generation ✅Robot models Read the tech blog to learn more ➡️ #GTCParis #VivaTechshow more

𝗣𝗼𝗽𝘂𝗹𝗮𝗿 𝗼𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗼𝗻: "𝗝𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝘀𝗶𝗺𝘂𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮." After working... with many 𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗼𝘁 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗽𝘂𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 teams who've fallen into the simulation trap, here's what I've learned: Simulation teaches your robot to be really, really good at simulation. Unlike blind locomotion policies that can get away with sim-to-real transfer because they rely mainly on proprioception and contact forces, 𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻-𝗴𝘂𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗽𝘂𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝗲𝘅𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗹𝘆 𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝘃𝗶𝘀𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗱𝗼𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗴𝗮𝗽. The subtle differences accumulate: - Simulated friction vs real surface textures - Perfect lighting vs shadows, reflections, glare - Ideal object geometries vs manufacturing tolerances - Instantaneous sensor readings vs real-world noise and latency - Clean backgrounds vs cluttered, dynamic environments 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗰 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻: Week 1: "Our model works perfectly in sim!" Week 2: "Let's collect some real data to fine-tune." Week 3: "The real data completely contradicts what the sim taught..." Week 4: "Okay, let's collect way more real data." Month 2: "We basically need to retrain from scratch." 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗳𝘂𝗹 𝘁𝗿𝘂𝘁𝗵: There's no shortcut to real-world data collection for vision-based manipulation. Simulation is amazing for debugging, prototyping, safety testing, and of course to supplement your real data. But it's not a substitute for understanding how your robot actually behaves in the actual environment. 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀: Use simulation strategically - for exploring edge cases, testing safety boundaries, and rapid iteration. But build your production models on real data from real environments. The teams that succeed treat simulation as a powerful tool, not a magic solution. This is why Neuracore focuses on making real-world data collection so much easier and faster. Because the physics of your actual environment can't be simulated away. 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹𝘀, 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘀𝗮𝘆? 𝗪𝗲𝗹𝗹, 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗵𝗮𝗽𝘀 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁! 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁'𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘀𝗶𝗺-𝘁𝗼-𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗳𝗲𝗿? 𝗛𝗮𝘀 𝗶𝘁 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝘀 𝘄𝗲𝗹𝗹 𝗮𝘀 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱?show more

A Letter to Our Community: The Road Ahead for... Robotics To our Community and Partners, As we step into 2026, our mission at Axis is clearer than ever: Constructing the definitive End-to-End Scaling Layer for Robotics. Our goal is to accelerate the transfer of diverse human intelligence into Robotics General Intelligence (RGI). By owning the critical path of intelligence creation, we are turning the physical limitations of robotics into a scalable, software-driven future. Here is our strategic outlook and roadmap for the year ahead. The Core Thesis: Simulation is the Only Way Out The path to RGI is currently blocked by Data Scarcity, Generalization Fragility, and Hardware Fragmentation. At Axis, we believe Simulation is the only way out. Our Simulation Data Platform and Data Augmentation Engine transform raw data into "Synthetic Gold". Backed by academic milestones like Roboverse, Skill Blending, and GraspVLA, we have proven that pure simulation can achieve the generalization required for the real world. We don’t just collect data; we architect it. The Engine: Why Crypto? We believe RGI should come from all, not a few. Crypto is not just a feature; it is the primitive that powers our entire ecosystem flywheel: - Incentive Mechanism: Democratizing contribution and rewarding the trainers and developers. - Assetization: Turning proprietary data and refined models into liquid, ownable assets. - Verifiable Workflow: We are opening the "Black Box" of AI. By bringing total transparency to the Task Generation → Data Collection → Model Training pipeline, we ensure every byte of intelligence is verifiable, traceable, and secure. 2026 Strategic Deliverables This year, we are committed to delivering three foundational pillars: - The World's Largest Training Dataset for Robots: A robot training set—diverse, high-quality interaction data at an unprecedented scale. - A Robotics Foundation Model: A universal robotic brain trained on our pure simulation and synthetic data, capable of robust cross-embodiment transfer and open-world adaptability. - Evolvable Robot Hardware: Robots deployed with Axis models that autonomously evolve through continuous interaction, turning every deployment into a self-improving node within our RGI network. The Ultimate Vision We are building more than models; we are architecting the Distributed Machine Economy. A future where every dataset, model, and robotic embodiment is a verifiable asset in a global, autonomous network. Thank you for building the future of intelligence with us✌️📷show more

Model-Free Reinforcement Learning (MFRL) has been alluring, especially with... supercharged compute with physics on GPU. However, the methods use 0-th order gradients, and are often not the best optimizers. Can we do better than PPO in continuous control for robotics? Turns out yes! 🥳 tl;dr: Faster, better RL than PPO in continuous control 💪 The answer lies in using more information from the simulation. We are juicing the simulation on GPU as it is, why not use it for gradients as well? This has been a driving question in a series of our works. We first studied this problem in ICLR 2022 paper on Short Horizon Actor Critic Naive gradient based methods are stuck in local minima and have exploding/vanishing gradients. SHAC solved this problem truncated rollouts and model based value estimation, where the model is Differentiable Sim. This boosted sample efficiency and wall-clock time immensely especially in high dimensional systems such as humanoids Yet, given enough compute PPO often caught up. Our follow up paper on on Adaptive Horizon Actor Critic at ICML 2024 discovers the cause and provides a fix. However, we find that even when given ground-truth dynamics, not all gradients are useful due to sample error. 1st-Order Model-Based Reinforcement Learning methods employing differentiable simulation provide gradients with reduced variance but are susceptible to bias in scenarios involving stiff dynamics, such as physical contact. We find that back-propagating through contact and long trajectories drastically reduces gradient accuracy. Using this insight, we propose AHAC to dynamically adapt its roll-out horizon to avoid differentiating through stiff contact. AHAC is a first-order model-based RL algorithm that learns high-dimensional tasks in minutes (wall clock) and outperforms PPO by 40%, even in the limit of data provided to PPO. This work is led by Ignat Georgiev alongside Krishnan Srinivasan, Jie Xu, Eric Heiden and ample assistance from warp team at NVIDIA Robotics (Miles Macklin)show more

Excited to share a few presentations, demos, and workshop... talks from our group and collaborators at #ICRA2026! We will present recent work on real-to-sim-to-real robot policy evaluation, model-based planning with learned dynamics, and multi-modal manipulation. We will also have a joint live demo between SceniX and Analog Devices, Inc. on real-to-sim-to-real cable manipulation at the ICRA exhibition. This is a small teaser of what we have been building, with more to come soon! If you are at ICRA, please stop by the sessions or the demo booth. Happy to chat about robot learning, simulation, world models, and sim-to-real!show more

HEAVEN ON EARTH ☁️ MARCH 20TH Our brand new... single, “Heaven On Earth,” is out this Friday. This song feels like a new chapter for us in the best way and we’re beyond excited to finally share it with you. Working with Poo Bear on this was incredibly special. He helped us bring this sound to life in a way that feels different from anything we’ve ever done before yet still in the Pentatonix realm. We’re really proud of this one and we hope you all love it. “Heaven On Earth” is out this Friday… pre-save now at ☁️show more

𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗲’𝘀 𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 “𝗣𝗵𝘆𝘀𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗔𝗜" - the idea that... we can simulate real-world environments so well that robots trained in simulation will work perfectly in reality. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗶𝘀𝗲: Train in virtual worlds → deploy anywhere. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆: I’ve seen too many teams fall into this trap. After working with manipulation teams at Berkeley, Imperial, and Dyson, here’s the pattern: • 𝗪𝗲𝗲𝗸 𝟭: “Our policy works perfectly in simulation!” • 𝗪𝗲𝗲𝗸 𝟰: “Why doesn’t this work on real objects?” • 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗵 𝟮: “We basically need to retrain from scratch with real data.” 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗴𝗮𝗽 𝘀𝗶𝗺𝘂𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗰𝗮𝗻’𝘁 𝗯𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗴𝗲: Unlike blind locomotion policies that can get away with sim-to-real transfer because they rely mainly on proprioception and contact forces, 𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻-𝗴𝘂𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗽𝘂𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝗲𝘅𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗹𝘆 𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝘃𝗶𝘀𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗱𝗼𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗴𝗮𝗽𝘀. • Real friction vs simulated surface textures • Manufacturing tolerances vs perfect CAD models • Dynamic lighting vs controlled virtual environments • Sensor noise vs instantaneous virtual readings 𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗲'𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗱𝗼𝗻'𝘁 𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗸 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁: Building these detailed simulated environments takes forever. If it takes 7 days to build a simulated kitchen in simulation, wouldn't it be better to just collect real-world data in a real kitchen instead? 𝗗𝗼𝗻'𝘁 𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝗺𝗲 𝘄𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗴 - simulation is incredible for debugging, safety testing, and exploring edge cases. But it's not a magic solution to real-world deployment. 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀: Use simulation strategically while making real-world data collection as efficient and flexible as possible. This is why Neuracore focuses on streamlined real-world data infrastructure. Because no amount of virtual training can replace understanding how your robot actually behaves in actual environments. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗵𝘆𝘀𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗱𝗲𝗽𝗹𝗼𝘆𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗲𝗻𝘃𝗶𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗰𝗮𝗻'𝘁 𝗯𝗲 𝘀𝗶𝗺𝘂𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝘄𝗮𝘆. What’s been your experience with sim-to-real transfer?show more

Polymarket self-calibrating weather-trading Python bot (Full Guide) run the... smartest weather-trading bot with 0 coding knowledge after reading this article: what's inside: > github with full Python code > trading 20 cities & 4 continents > 3 forecast sources {ECMWF, HRRR, METAR} > EV+ automatic calculation for each trade > auto-sizing based on the Kelly Criterion > full-data storage {forecast, trade, resolution} > self-calibration based on snapshots & data logic of the bot: • get 3 type of forecasts from Open-Meteo API • compare station data to 1h forecasts to get real data • calculate +EV per $1 using the {min_ev} parameter • detemine size based on Kelly Criterion • run a 1000$ test-simulation using the strategy • snapshot each trade, forecast, and resultion • auto-calibrates every 30 forecasts per city This bot won't print you $500 next day after setup, but it will give you a sandbox for testing own strategies.show more

Open-Source Multi-Sensor Data Platform for Neural 3D Reconstruction and... Physical AI [📍github] It handles cameras, LiDAR, radar, poses, calibrations & labels in one clean format. No more messy custom parsers. • Super efficient (non-redundant storage) • New .itar single-file format with lightning-fast random access • Streams straight from S3/GCS/Azure – perfect for huge datasets • Built-in converters for Waymo, ScanNet++ & more • Already powers NVIDIA NuRec, 3DGRUT & gsplat Saw this at Janick Martinez Esturo, thanks for sharing! Easy to try: • pip install nvidia-ncore • GitHub: • Docs & project page: NCore slashes data wrangling time, cuts storage waste, and makes large-scale neural 3D training faster and simpler than ever. A real standard for physical AI. ——- Weekly robotics and AI insights. Subscribe free:show more

[News] 🚨⚠️ CLOSER LOOK AT OLAF ROBOT FOR DISNEY... ADVENTURE WORLD! ➡️ Walt Disney Imagineering unveils its most advanced autonomous character : the new Olaf robot, featured also in the series We Call It Imagineering. The robot will premiere for the opening of World of Frozen in 2026! ➡️ This video was taken during the Disney Adventure World Press event. A couple of details we learned : ➖ Fully electric next-gen platform with free-roaming capability ➖ 41 actuated motions enabling high-fidelity facial animation ➖ Soft, deformable exterior and animation-accurate motion design focused on believability ➖ “Deep Reinforcement Learning and Newton-based simulation for movement training” ➖ Tech collaborations with NVIDIA and Google DeepMind. ➡️ A major step forward for autonomous character robotics in the parks, another brilliant work done by #Imagineering ! #DisneylandParis [FULL VIDEO HERE :show more

📢 Our lab has been exploring 3D world models... for years — and we’re thrilled to share **PhysTwin**: a milestone that reconstructs object appearance, geometry, and dynamics from just a few seconds of interaction! Led by the amazing Hanxiao Jiang 👉 PhysTwin combines **Gaussian splatting** with **inverse dynamics optimization** based on simple **spring-mass** systems. ⚙️ The result? Real-time, action-conditioned 3D video prediction under novel interactions (i.e., 3D world models). 🔑 A few key takeaways: 1. Having the right structure (e.g., particles/masses) helps navigate the trade-off between sample efficiency, generalization, and broad applicability. 2. Visual foundation models (VFMs) have matured to the point where they can provide rich supervision for world modeling (e.g., tracking, shape completion). 3. Beyond VFMs, many crucial components have come together in recent years: Gaussian splats for rendering, NVIDIA Warp for high-performance simulation, and scene/asset generation from a wide range of labs and companies. The future of 3D world models is looking bright! ✨ 4. The resulting digital twin supports a wide range of downstream applications—especially in data generation and policy evaluation, thanks to its realistic rendering and simulation capabilities. 🎥 All code and data to reproduce the results, along with interactive demos, are available on the website. Check the following visualizations of: (1) observations, (2) reconstructed state/actions, (3) interactive digital twins, and (4) the overlays between real-world robot teleoperation and our model’s open-loop predictions.show more

Haven't been to a conference in a while, really... excited to be at #NeurIPS2024! I'll be helping present 4 of our group's recent papers: 1. Overcoming the Sim-to-Real Gap: Leveraging Simulation to Learn to Explore for Real-World RL 2. Distributional Successor Features Enable Zero-Shot Policy Optimization 3. Learning to Cooperate with Humans using Generative Agents 4. Personalizing Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback with Variational Preference Learning Find more details on each paper and where to find us in this thread (1/6)show more

Memo is a robot that uses AI to perform... household tasks effectively. Today Sunday announced its Series B, and we’re proud to be investors. Training robots for the home is hard — the environment is messy, dynamic, and full of edge cases. So Sunday is training robots directly on real households. Founders Tony Zhao and Cheng Chi built a glove-based system that lets hundreds of contributors record everyday tasks in their own homes, creating high-fidelity demonstrations that feed directly into robot learning. Home robotics will be defined by the companies that learn fastest from real homes. Sunday is building that loop. More here: Aaref Hilaly Amanda Huangshow more

A graduate research assistant just built a tool every... roboticist using SolidWorks will want to bookmark: This free, browser-based utility converts SolidWorks URDF exports into ROS 2 packages: no installs, no hassle. Built to save time for engineers and students working with ROS. What it offers ✅ Upload your URDF and mesh files ✅ Convert instantly to ROS 2 format ✅ Download a ready-to-use zip ✅ No ROS or setup needed Simple, useful, and built by someone who gets the struggle. Try it out and share your thoughts. Credit: this wonderful work is from Abhishek Chaudhari! 💻 Try it now:show more

With Hunyuan3D World Model 1.0 now released and open-sourced,... we're excited to showcase the technical highlights behind this impressive innovation: ✅360° Panoramic Generation: Creates complete, immersive “world scenes”, far beyond localized views. ✅Explorable 3D Scene Generation: Generates diverse, spatially consistent 3D worlds from text/image for truly immersive exploration. ✅Interactive/Editable: Achieves separation of foreground objects, background terrain, ground, and sky, for seamless secondary editing. ✅Exportable Mesh: Generated scenes can be exported as 3D meshes for direct import into mainstream game engines and modeling software. ✅Industry-Leading SOTA Evaluation: Surpasses state-of-the-art open-source models in generation quality. As the industry's first open-source model for physical simulation and explorable world generation, Hunyuan3D World Model 1.0 aims to foster a collaborative community ecosystem with developers and enthusiasts. ✨ Try it now: 🤗 Hugging Face:show more

Introducing the Grayscale Walrus Trust $WAL 🧊 Walrus 🦭/acc... is redefining decentralized data management, a critical pillar for scaling real-world Web3 applications. 🧠 Programmable Data at Scale: Walrus enables on-chain storage and real-time data management, powering dApps like social networks, games, and productivity tools — all while maintaining privacy and ownership. 🔗 Chain-Agnostic by Design: Walrus can store, share, and manage data across any blockchain (not just Sui), giving developers flexibility and speed. 🏗️ Core Infrastructure: From encrypted file sharing to active deletion and lifecycle controls, Walrus is a foundational piece of Mysten Labs’ decentralized stack. See important disclosures and learn more about the Grayscale Walrus Trust:show more

🔥 Phoenix is officially live on Solaris AI Flow.... You can now trade Phoenix perps inside a Solaris AI workflow. No code. Drop a node onto the canvas, pick an operation, and wire it to anything: AI signals, price feeds, schedules, alerts. The full order-book DEX from Ellipsis Labs, now programmable. Built so you can trade with confidence: ✦ Paper mode is on by default. Every order is checked and simulated against the live order book, real depth and real slippage, but nothing is signed or broadcast. ✦ Paper behaves exactly like Live. If an order would be rejected on-chain, it is rejected in simulation too. No false fills, no surprises. ✦ Going Live is one switch, and it asks for confirmation before any real funds move. Build it. Test it. Trade it. A full perps strategy, proven on paper before a single dollar moves. 30 operations in one node: ✦ Read live markets, order book depth, candles, and funding rates ✦ Track your positions, collateral, and PnL, realized and unrealized ✦ Place limit, market, and stop-loss orders, plus conditional triggers ✦ Cancel orders, manage margin, and move collateral, all from the workflow No scripts. No backend. No terminal to babysit. Just a workflow that trades. You can try it for free. Demo + Link down below 👇show more

ImmerseGen: Agent-Guided Immersive World Generation with Alpha-Textured Proxies Contributions:... 1) We propose ImmerseGen, a novel agent-guided 3D environment generation framework. It uses simplified geometric proxies with alpha-textured meshes to produce compact, photorealistic worlds ready for real-time mobile VR rendering. 2) We propose a novel RGBA texturing paradigm. It first synthesizes 8K terrain textures using a geometry-conditioned panorama generator via user-centric mapping, and then directly generates alpha-textured proxy assets, avoiding fidelity loss typically resulting from mesh decimation. 3) To automate scene creation from user prompts, we introduce VLM-based modeling agents equipped with a novel grid-based semantic analysis. This enables 3D spatial reasoning from 2D observations and ensures accurate asset placement. ImmerseGen further enhances immersion with dynamic effects and ambient audio for a multisensory experience. 4) Experiments on multiple scene-generation scenarios and live mobile VR applications show that ImmerseGen outperforms previous methods in visual quality, realism, spatial coherence, and rendering efficiency for immersive real-time VR experiences.show more

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