Sim-to-real for Piper-NIST robot arm: full pipeline and debug board shown
erwincoumans · x · 2026-10-29
Erwin Coumans shares his sim-to-real work on the Piper-NIST robot arm. Screenshots show a full sim debug panel with joint/task-space controls and a 12-step peg-in-hole sequence (21.9s), while photos show the same NIST task board running on a real dual-arm Piper station.
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