CoreWeave's Physical AI Lead Explains Why Robots Hit the Sim-to-Real Gap
thursdai_pod · x · 2026-10-04
The Thursdai podcast shares a clip of Richard Ahlfeld, who leads Physical AI at CoreWeave, explaining why robots face a sim-to-real gap: the crux is whether simulators faithfully capture physical properties—does water behave the same way in a simulator? Does rock? He breaks it down for a self-declared 'pleb in the bits world,' starting around 59:03 of the edited cut.
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