Startup claims in-house training breakthrough on robotics' sim2real gap
paigeinsf · x · 2026-10-22
ckxyz posted that the sim2real gap is one of the biggest bottlenecks in robotics, and that their team trained akari in-house — described as one of the first major model breakthroughs that will close it. "Turns out a data moat and a cracked research team can compound pretty fast."
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