Sim-to-real transfer
Training robot policies entirely in simulation and deploying them on real robots without fine-tuning. Every Robotics Weekly story on Sim-to-real transfer, newest first. 3 stories since October 2026.
- Machenta exits stealth with $40M and one-demo learning
The robot foundation model was trained without a single pixel of real-world data, the founder says.
- Real robot catches the error in RoboSimStudio's AI-built sim
The agent modelled a bar support as fixed, the hardware proved otherwise, and the fix went back into the simulation.
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- COWBOY grasps in the wild after sim-only training
One policy drives base, arm, dexterous hand and active vision together, with no real-robot fine-tuning.
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