Robotics sim frontier names from World Labs, NVIDIA, PI to meet in SF on sim2real gap
jia_seed · x · 2026-11-05
emilyyu previewed an SF meetup on robot simulation: 'egocentric/teleop hours got robot data started; sim scales with compute if it transfers.' Speakers include Yunzhu Li (World Labs), Stone Tao (Physical Intelligence), Haozhi Qi (Amazon FAR), and Ankur Handos (NVIDIA Robotics), with PalatialSim × origamirobo closing the sim2real gap in dexterous manipulation. 50 spots at a new robot-native SF lab.
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