Scholar stunned by robot demo, questions Sim-to-Real value
ChongZzZhang · x · 2026-08-25
Reacting to a recent robot demo, scholar ChongZzZhang described it as "mind blowing," stating that it far surpasses any published research and may be killing research in many academic labs. He raised a fundamental question about the field: given this technological gap, does it still make sense to work on sim-to-real locomotion?
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