Digital Twins

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Digital twins are computational counterparts of physical assets, people, or broader systems, updated with observations to represent their changing state and test possible actions. Approaches range from physics-based simulation and data assimilation to machine-learning surrogates, hybrid models, generative agents, and reinforcement learning for control. Applications span manufacturing, infrastructure, transportation, healthcare, energy, and social systems, where twins can support forecasting, maintenance, safety testing, and personalized decisions. A central challenge is ensuring that a twin remains calibrated and trustworthy as conditions change, while balancing fidelity, uncertainty, computation, privacy, and validation against real-world outcomes.

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  1. Semantic Representation for Agentic Self-Play in Automated Laboratories

    Oct 23, 2026Yves Delley, John Coller, Zachary Cutts +12Autonomous ExperimentationLaboratory Automation

    Google Research · Google Cloud · Google DeepMind

  2. WorldMirror: Agentic Real-to-Sim Generation of Interactive Worlds from In-the-Wild Robot Demonstrations

    Oct 22, 2026Tianling Xu, Weijie Wan, Honghao Su +9Robotics SimulationDigital Twins

    Xspark AI · University College London · Tsinghua University +2

  3. TwinStore: A Synthetic Consumer Platform Using Vision--Language Models

    Oct 22, 2026Minhyeok LeeSynthetic Data GenerationDigital Twins

  4. Evaluating Type-1 Diabetes Digital Twins by Decision Quality

    Oct 22, 2026Victor Li, Owen Tucker, Michael S. Hughes +2Digital TwinsClinical Decision-Making

    Department of Computer Science, Emory University · School of Medicine, Emory University

  5. A Process-Informed, Photorealistic Digital Twin for Vision-Based Inline Inspection of C-SMC Strip Deposition

    Oct 20, 2026Patrick Flore, Fabian Röder, Kevin Chen +1Synthetic Data GenerationIndustrial Inspection

    Leibniz-Institut für Verbundwerkstoffe GmbH, Erwin-Schrödinger Straße, Geb. 58, Kaiserslautern, 67663, , Germany

  6. K-AoI: A Spatio-Temporal Synchronization Metric for Digital Twin-based Teleoperation in Dynamic Network Environments

    Oct 19, 2026Lu Tian, Zhenhui Yuan, Zexin Deng +1Age of InformationRobot Teleoperation

    School of Engineering, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK · Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK

  7. Concordance Plausibility Check for Intervention-Conditioned Human Digital Twins

    Oct 17, 2026Saeed Farzi, Christopher Kipps, John McBeth +7Counterfactual EvaluationDigital Twins

    School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK · Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK · University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK +9

  8. Data-Driven Resource Aggregation for Scalable Digital Twin and Simulation Model Generation

    Oct 16, 2026Yucheng Wu, Alp AkcayDigital Twins

    Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, USA

  9. De-Risking Robotic Welding for In-Space Metal Joining Through Physics-Grounded Digital Twins

    Oct 15, 2026Zhou Daniel Hao, Umer Masood Chaudry, Robert Shaw +4Digital TwinsSpace Robotics

    DANiLab, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom · School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom · TWI Ltd, United Kingdom +1

  10. Feasibility of a Patient-Specific Digital Twin for Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt Trajectory Planning

    Oct 14, 2026Kritsanavis Chongsrid, Vich Yindeedej, Supaporn Konmun +2Digital Twins

    MedVisAI Lab, Singapore. · Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. · Centre of AI in Medicine, Singapore. +2

  11. Mixed-Reality Feedback Control: Towards Blending of Control and Digital Twinning

    Oct 14, 2026Melisa Soydan, Mario GleirscherFeedback ControlDigital Twins

    Institut Polytechnique de Paris, X, Palaiseau, France · Institut Polytechnique de Paris, ENSTA, Palaiseau, France

  12. Probabilistic Physics Digital Twin for Human-Robot Interaction

    Oct 14, 2026Yushen Hu, Harshvardhan Chandirasekar, Apurv Kushwaha +2Digital TwinsRobotics Simulation

    University of Minnesota, USA · Howard University, USA

  13. DTScribe: Generating Models for Digital Twin Reporting using Local Large Language Models

    Oct 13, 2026Kérian Fiter, Angelica Portocarrero, Bentley OakesDigital Twins

    Département de Génie Informatique et Génie Logiciel, Polytechnique Montréal, 2500, chemin de Polytechnique, Montréal, H3T 1J4, Québec, Canada · Facultad de Ingeniería y Ciencias Básicas, Universidad Autónoma de Occidente, Carrera 25 #115-85, Santiago de Cali, 760030, Colombia

  14. Semantic Edge-Cloud Communication for Real-Time Urban Traffic Digital Twins

    Oct 9, 2026Murat Arda Onsu, Arman Dogru, Poonam Lohan +2Trajectory ReconstructionIntelligent Transportation Systems

    School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada. · Nokia Bell Labs, 600 March Road, Kanata, ON K2K 2E6, Canada.

  15. Leveraging Human-In-The-Loop Demonstrations in Reinforcement Learning for Digital Twin-Driven Robot Flexibility

    Oct 8, 2026Yuzhu Sun, Mien Van, Nguyen Minh Nhat +2Robotic RLHuman-in-the-Loop AI

    School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK

  16. LIVIN: Benchmarking Spatial and Embodied Intelligence in Digital Twins of Lived-In Homes

    Oct 8, 2026Peijun Xu, Chuansen Nie, Yiyang He +13RoboticsRobot Manipulation Benchmarks

    ShanghaiTech University · Deemos Technology

  17. Digital Twin for Pre-Deployment Validation of AI-Driven Safety-Critical Industrial Edge Control Loops

    Oct 8, 2026Sara Cavallero, Federico Tonini, Tony Chahoud +5Digital TwinsCyber-Physical Systems

    National Laboratory of Wireless Communications of CNIT (Wilab, CNIT), Italy · DEI, University of Bologna, Italy · WiLab CNIT, Italy +1

  18. Adjoint-Based Calibration and Optimal Control of Stochastic Multiscale Bioprocess Digital Twins

    Oct 7, 2026Keilung Choy, Wei XieActive Experimental DesignDigital Twins

    Northeastern University

  19. RenderBench: Benchmarking Render-to-Real Video Transfer with Reconstructed Digital Twins

    Oct 6, 2026Dicong Qiu, Zhiyuan Xu, Yaosheng Liu +2Sim-to-Real TransferDigital Twins

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) · Southeast University · Independent Researcher

  20. Digital Twin-Driven Real2Sim2Real: Simulator-Conditioned Generation via Paired Driving-Scene Reconstruction

    Oct 6, 2026Hojun Lim, Hyeongseok Jeon, Donghyun Kim +2Synthetic Data AugmentationSim-to-Real Transfer

    Technical University of Munich, Germany; School of Engineering & Design, Department of Mobility Systems Engineering, Institute of Automotive Technology and Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence (MIRMI) · MORAI Inc., Seoul, South Korea · AVP Division, Hyundai Motor Company, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea +1

  21. APOD: reasoning-guided agentic population ordinary differential equation discovery for pharmacological digital twins

    Oct 5, 2026Romain Ferrara, Martin Soucail, Victor Gertner +7Digital TwinsLarge Language Model-Guided Scientific Discovery

    COMPutational pharmacology and clinical Oncology (COMPO), Inria Center at University Côte d’Azur, Cancer Research Center of Marseille, Marseille, France · Department of Nuclear Medicine, Institut Paoli-Calmettes, ENETS Center of Excellence, IPC NET Center, Marseille, France · Centre for Computational Biology (CBIO), Mines Paris, PSL University, Paris, France +3

  22. Demo: Vision-Language Model-Guided Online Calibration of an Electromagnetic Digital Twin

    Oct 5, 2026Zerui Kang, Yishen Lim, Zhouyou Gu +4Wireless CommunicationsDigital Twins

    Singapore University of Technology and Design Singapore, Singapore · Inha University Incheon, Republic of Korea

  23. LifeLong Digital Twin: A Unified Modeling Paradigm and Agent Harness for Event-Driven Lifelong Health State Trajectories

    Oct 4, 2026Jin Jiang, Sean Yates, Jasper Chong +4Clinical PredictionDigital Twins

    Peking University · VITA-Med Group

  24. Now You Feel It, Now You See Me: Digital-Twin-based Teleoperation Interface for Dexterous Manipulation

    Oct 4, 2026Youngchan Shim, Kyutae Lee, JooYun Kim +3Robot TeleoperationHaptic Feedback

    Department of Robotics and Mechatronics Engineering, DGIST, Daegu, Korea · Department of Mechanical Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

  25. Large Language Models and Augmented Democracy

    Oct 3, 2026Jairo Gudiño-RoseroDigital TwinsLarge Language Model-Based Social Simulation

    Doctoral School of Mathematics, Computer Science and Telecommunications of Toulouse, Toulouse, France

  26. BLT*: Informed Belief Localization Trees for Uncertainty-Aware Planning on Digital Twins

    Oct 1, 2026Elliot Preston-Krebs, Abhishek Goudar, Timothy D. BarfootBelief-Space PlanningDigital Twins

    University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies (UTIAS), 4925 Dufferin St, Ontario, Canada.

  27. TouchTherm: Building Multimodal Digital Twins of Objects for Tactile and Thermal Rendering

    Oct 1, 2026Yitao Zhang, Hong Ying, Haoran Guo +33D Mesh ReconstructionDigital Twins

    ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China

  28. Grounding Time-Series Foundation Models in Digital Twin Topology for Predictive Maintenance

    Sep 30, 2026Sizhe Ma, Katherine A. Flanigan, Mario BergésRUL EstimationDigital Twins

    Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University 5000 Forbes Ave., Pittsburgh, PA USA 15213

  29. An Uncertainty-Guided Digital Twin Framework for Online Adaptive Proton Therapy in Head and Neck Cancer: A Feasibility Study

    Sep 30, 2026Yizhou Wu, Ryan J. Sanford, Huiqiao Xie +12HealthcareDigital Twins

    Department of Radiation Oncology and Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30308, USA · Department of Radiation Oncology, Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taipei, 110301, Taiwan · Department of Human Oncology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53792, USA +1

  30. C-STRIDE: An Observation-Driven AI Digital Twin for Predicting Basin-Wide Flood Fields from Sparse Stream-Gauge Histories

    Sep 30, 2026Yanjie Tong, Phillip Si, Yuan Qiu +1Surrogate ModelingFlood Inundation Mapping

    School of Computational Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 756 West Peachtree Street Northwest, Atlanta, 30308, GA, USA