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  1. Demo: Closed-Loop Sionna-Isaac Sim Co-Simulation Framework for Wireless-Aware Robot Navigation over ROS 2

    Oct 6, 2026Yi Shen Lim, Seungeun Oh, Jihong ParkRobotics SimulationRobot Navigation

    Singapore University of Technology and Design Singapore

  2. UWB Meets Crazyflow: Simulating Degraded Feedback at Scale for Aerial Robotics

    Oct 6, 2026Martin Schuck, Marcel P. Rath, Yufei Hua +3Aerial RoboticsRobotics Simulation

    Learning Systems and Robotics Lab, Technical University of Munich, Germany

  3. EmbodiedSmith: Scaling Embodied Data through Recursive Self-Improvement Flywheel in Simulation

    Oct 6, 2026Yikai Qin, Yifei Deng, Mingjian Liang +13Robot Foundation ModelsRobotics Simulation

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) · Xiaomi Robotics · Southeastern University +7

  4. SMART: Zero-Shot Sim-to-Real Articulated Object Manipulation via Large-Scale Synthetic Pretraining

    Oct 6, 2026Jicong Ao, Shuhan Jiang, Yuling Zhong +7Robotics SimulationSim-to-Real Transfer

    Institute of Artificial Intelligence, China Telecom · Zhejiang University · Technical University of Munich +4

  5. AIM: Adaptive Interaction Modeling Networks for Real-to-Sim Soft-Body Simulation

    Oct 5, 2026Tiancheng Yang, Dingshuo Chen, Tianle Chen +2Robotics SimulationRobot Dynamics Learning

    NLPR, MAIS, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences · School of Advanced Interdisciplinary Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · School of Artificial Intelligence, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences +1

  6. AffordCraft: Scalable Construction of Task-Ready Simulation Assets from Single Images

    Oct 5, 2026Haoyun Yang, Xueyang Zhou, Ziyi Xie +1Articulated Object ReconstructionRobotics Simulation

    College of AI, Tsinghua University · School of Computer Science, Chongqing University · School of Cyber Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology +1

  7. ArtifactArena: Evaluating Models by What They Build in the Physical World

    Oct 5, 2026Kushagra Tiwary*, David Mayo*, Nikhil Behari +5Robotics SimulationRobotics

    InfoLab, MIT CSAIL · Camera Culture, MIT Media Lab · Department of Psychiatry, NYU Grossman School of Medicine +1

  8. Infant simulator with an embodied caregiver: Generating infant-perspective touch and vision during social interaction

    Oct 5, 2026Noemi Vaculinova, Matej HoffmannRobotics SimulationHuman Behavior Simulation

    Department of Cybernetics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic

  9. H-SPAR: Hydrodynamic-aware Simulation for Particle Transport and Autonomous Robots

    Oct 1, 2026Navid Zarrabi, Nariman Yousefi, Sajad SaeediRobotic Data CollectionRobotics Simulation

    Department of Mechanical, Industrial, and Mechatronics Engineering, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. · Department of Chemical Engineering, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. · Department of Computer Science, University College London, London, United Kingdom.

  10. EIDA: Execution-Interface Dynamics Adaptation for Real-to-Sim-to-Real Robot Navigation

    Oct 1, 2026Yiwei Qian, Shanze Wang, Qingyuan Hu +2Robot Dynamics IdentificationRobotics Simulation

    Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo, China · National University of Singapore, Singapore · Department of Aeronautical and Aviation Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong +1

  11. Measuring Asset and Scene Reconstruction Effects in Real-to-Sim Robot Evaluation

    Sep 30, 2026Sanya Verma, Luca Cilio, Velissarios Christodoulou3D ReconstructionRobotics Simulation

    Kaedim

  12. SimEX: Simulation-Integrated Robotics AutoResearch

    Sep 30, 2026Jiaheng Hu, Roberto Martin-Martin, Peter Stone +3Robot Skill LearningRobotics Simulation

    Amazon FAR (Frontier AI & Robotics) · The University of Texas at Austin · Carnegie Mellon University

  13. EmbodiRSI: Recursive Self-Improvement for Data-Efficient Robot Adaptation

    Sep 30, 2026Haoran Lang, Haotao Lu, Shiyu Sang +6Robot Policy AdaptationRobotic Data Collection

    InstAdapt · ShanghaiTech University

  14. PneuTac: Tactile Manipulation with Soft Pneumatic Robots via Unified MPM-Gaussian Splatting Simulation

    Sep 29, 2026Shaohong Zhong, Marco Pontin, Joe Watson +2Robotics SimulationSynthetic Data Generation for Robotics

    Oxford Robotics Institute, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, OX1 3PJ Oxford, U.K.

  15. Draft: A Parametric Tool for Robot Design Exploration

    Sep 29, 2026David Nguyen, Marcelo Coelho, Sangbae KimRobot Morphology-Control Co-DesignRobotics Simulation

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Department of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  16. WorldLine: Action-Driven Visual Simulation for Robotic Manipulation

    Sep 29, 2026Shenghe Zheng, Wenbo Li, Jiyao Zhang +4Action-Conditioned Video GenerationWorld Models for Robotics

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology · Joy Future Academy · Peking University +1

  17. RoboFin3D: A Sim-to-Real Platform for Robotic Surface Finishing

    Sep 29, 2026Haowei Wen, Shangtao Li, Vaibhav Sanjay +3Robotics SimulationSim-to-Real Transfer

    Robotics Institute, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University

  18. Real2Gym: Building Gyms from Videos, Bringing Skills to Robots

    Sep 29, 2026Kerui Ren, Yingxiang Xu, Kaiwen Song +4Robot Skill LearningRobotics Simulation

    Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory · Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Zhejiang University +3

  19. All You Need Is Low Fidelity: Zero-Shot Sim-to-Real of Learned Robotic Fish Control

    Sep 29, 2026Liam Maloney, Simon Ramchandani, Mike Y. Michelis +2Robotic ControlRobotics Simulation

    Soft Robotics Lab, ETH Zurich, Switzerland · ETH AI Center, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

  20. LIBERO-MAX: Do Robot Policies Adapt When the World Changes?

    Sep 29, 2026Yunbei Zhang, Zijian Jin, Yuanzhe Liu +14Robot Policy AdaptationRobotics Simulation

    Tulane University · New York University · UIUC +6

  21. SkillWeaver: Agentic Exploration over Neural Interaction Skills for Scalable Robot Data Generation

    Sep 28, 2026He Zhu, Lusen Zhao, Kwan Man Cheng +2Robot Skill LearningRobotics Simulation

    Carnegie Mellon University · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  22. RoboCompiler: Graph-Native Compilation of Closed-Chain Robots for Consistent Modeling, Control, and Simulation

    Sep 28, 2026Mehdi Heydari Shahna, Joongheon Kim, Jouni MattilaRobotic ControlRobotics Simulation

    Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland

  23. DexAgent: An Agentic Human2Sim2Robot Framework for Dexterous Manipulation with Self-Evolving Tool Library

    Sep 28, 2026Youhui Wang, Yunzhu Li, Li Fei-Fei +2Long-Horizon Robotic ManipulationRobotics Simulation

    Stanford University · Columbia University

  24. CoHuB: A Simulation Benchmark for Multi-Humanoid Collaboration

    Sep 28, 2026Hyunjin Park, Jebeom Chae, Minwoo Park +11Robotics SimulationMulti-Agent Collaboration

    Yonsei University · Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology · University of California, Berkeley +1

  25. Simulation for Planetary Robotic Perception and Autonomy: A Concise Survey of Recent Capabilities and Gaps

    Sep 28, 2026Hoyun Kim, Giseop KimSpace RoboticsRobotics Simulation

    Department of Robotics and Mechatronics Engineering, DGIST, Daegu, Republic of Korea

  26. Test-Time Spatial Reasoning for Robot Manipulation Using Generative Real-to-Sim

    Sep 27, 2026Ivan Kapelyukh, Yafei Hu, Ran Gong +63D Spatial ReasoningRobotics Simulation

    Robotics and AI Institute · Imperial College London

  27. A Simple Gripper Interface for Simulator-Agnostic Cloth Manipulation

    Sep 24, 2026Abhilash Nayak, Franco Coltraro, Maria Alberich-Carramiñana +1Robotic GraspingRobotics Simulation

    Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial, CSIC-UPC, Barcelona, Spain · Departament de Matemàtiques, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

  28. TAPESIM: Efficient Simulation of Adhesive Tape Dispensing for Robotic Manipulation

    Sep 23, 2026Zhaofeng Luo, Xinyu Lu, Jaehoon Choi +10Contact-Rich Robotic ManipulationRobotics Simulation

    Carnegie Mellon University · Genesis AI

  29. BladeMaster: Real-Time Robotic Cutting Simulation with Online-Generated Persistent Discontinuities

    Sep 23, 2026Zhanyu Yang, Yunuo Chen, Yanjia Huang +3Robotics SimulationDeformable Object Manipulation

    Purdue University, USA · UCLA, USA · Envora Inc., USA +2

  30. φ-RIE: From Photorealistic Reconstruction to Interactive Environments

    Sep 22, 2026Runyi Yang, Deheng Zhang, Xiaoye Wang +63D Gaussian Splatting3D Scene Editing

    INSAIT, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”. · vivo Mobile Communication Co., Ltd. · Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

  31. AgriGen: Large-Scale Scene Generation Framework for Photorealistic Agricultural Robotics Simulation

    Sep 22, 2026Utkarsh Bajpai, Serge Tleiji, Cédric Pradalier +1Robotics SimulationSynthetic Data Generation for Robotics

    Georgia Tech-CNRS IRL2958, France · Notre Dame University, Lebanon; work done during internship at 1

  32. PhyVisGen: Physically and Visually High-Fidelity Robotic Manipulation Data Generation

    Sep 22, 2026Yu Zheng, Qiyu Feng, Yixin Wu +6Robotics SimulationSim-to-Real Transfer

    School of Automation and Intelligent Sensing, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China. · Global College, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China. · Shenzhen Dizhou Technology Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, China +1

  33. Contact-Stable Deformable Tissue Simulation Using Implicit Integration and Live-Pose Grasp Constraints for Laparoscopic Surgery Robot Policy Evaluation

    Sep 22, 2026Juahn Oh, Dongho Yee, Jinseok Lee +9Contact-Rich Robotic ManipulationRobotics Simulation

    Department of Transdisciplinary Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea. · Rosota Inc., Seoul, Republic of Korea. · Eulji University College of Medicine, Daejeon, Republic of Korea. +6

  34. Uranus: Building the Next-Generation Simulation Infrastructure for Embodied AI

    Sep 21, 2026Wenkang Qin, Yukun Zhou, Noah Shen +5Robotics SimulationSynthetic Data Generation for Robotics

    D-Robotics Large Model Team

  35. ARSTAG: An Agentic Real2Sim2Real System for Task-Specific Robot Data Generation

    Sep 21, 2026Bowei Li, Yuner Zhang, Changliu LiuRobotics SimulationSim-to-Real Transfer

    Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA

  36. FinsSim: A Reality-Aligned Integrated Simulation Platform for Underwater Robot Learning

    Sep 20, 2026Yu Zhang, Yuanmingqing Song, Xiangyun Rao +4Robotic ControlRobotics Simulation

    Department of Automation, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China · School of Ocean and Civil Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China · Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

  37. PINGU: Extending Air-Bearing Spacecraft Emulators with Open-Source Actuators and Learned Control for Contact-Rich Proximity Operations

    Sep 20, 2026Ricard Marsal I Castan, Akiyoshi Uchida, Aman Arora +7Space RoboticsContact-Rich Robotic Manipulation

    University of Luxembourg · Tohoku University · Georgia Institute of Technology

  38. DeformSmith: Physics Harness-Guided Hierarchical Generation of Deformable Assets for Robot Manipulation

    Sep 16, 2026Can Li, Jie Gu, Zishun Deng +23D Asset GenerationRobotics Simulation

    Nankai University · Rightly Robotics, A4x

  39. Hardware-Free Robotics Laboratories in Mixed Reality

    Sep 16, 2026Santiago Berrezueta-Guzman, Habiba-Loai Khalil, Andrei Koshelev +2Robotics SimulationRobotics Education

    Technical University of Munich, Heilbronn, Germany

  40. LOTUSim-Energy: A Maritime Simulator for Human-Drone Interaction in Autonomous Offshore Operation & Maintenance

    Sep 15, 2026Juliette Grosset, Marie Dubromel, Hélène Lechêne +2Multi-Robot SystemsRobotics Simulation

    CROSSING · CROSSING IRL 2010, Naval Group · CROSSING, IMT Atlantique +1

  41. Bench2Dex: Benchmarking Visuo-Tactile Bimanual Dexterous Manipulation Across Dexterous Hands

    Sep 14, 2026Zhenjie Yang, Yideng Zhang, Dongjie Zhang +21Dexterous ManipulationBimanual Robotic Manipulation

    The University of Hong Kong · Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Fudan University +4

  42. ReactHuman: A Physics-Grounded Benchmark for Human-Like Reactive Decision-Making in Embodied Multimodal LLMs

    Sep 12, 2026Yizhan Li, Jianxin You, Mengyang Xiong +5Physical ReasoningRobotics Simulation

    Université de Montréal · Mila – Quebec AI Institute · McGill University +2

  43. Coastal Environment Generation with HoloOcean

    Sep 9, 2026Abigail Austin, Brady Moon, Joshua G. MangelsonRobotics Simulation3D Scene Generation

    Brigham Young University

  44. RoboCousin: Build Your Own Simulation Playground for Robust Bimanual Robotic Manipulation

    Sep 8, 2026Jingxuan Zhu, Jingyi Li, LiangLiang Chen +3Bimanual Robotic ManipulationRobotics Simulation

    E-surfing Digital Life Technology Co., Ltd., China Telecom

  45. mjorbit: A Simulation Framework for Space Robotics

    Sep 7, 2026John Z. Zhang, Joris Verhagen, Fausto Vega +2Space RoboticsRobotics Simulation

    Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Division of Robotics, Perception and Learning, KTH Royal Institute of Technology

  46. AM-Bench: A Modular Simulation Suite and Benchmark for Aerial Manipulation Policy Learning

    Sep 1, 2026Yutong Wang, Dongjae Lee, Xiaofeng Guo +9Robotics SimulationRobotic Policy Evaluation

    The Robotics Institute, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University · School of Mechanical Engineering, Kyung Hee University · Department of Aerospace Engineering, Pennsylvania State University

  47. Aero Hand Open: A Simulation-Ready Tendon-Driven Hand for Dexterous Manipulation Learning

    Aug 28, 2026Nan Wang, Mohit Yadav, Jonathan Wulff +5Robotic Hand DesignRobotics Simulation

    Chestnut Robotics

  48. CRESSim-Neo: A Batched GPU Simulation Engine for Surgical Robotics and Robot Learning

    Aug 25, 2026Yafei Ou, Ahnaf Naheen, Tleukhan Mussin +3Robotics SimulationSynthetic Data Generation for Robotics

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering; 2Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

  49. HumanoidVLN: A Physics-Grounded Simulator and Benchmark for Vision-Language Navigation Across Diverse Humanoid Embodiments

    Aug 13, 2026Quan-Dung Pham, Anh Dao, The-Anh Nguyen +8Robotics SimulationVision-Language Navigation

    VinMotion, Inc., Vietnam · University of Southern California, USA

  50. D3D-GEN: Robot-Aware Domain-Grounded Interactive 3D World Generation for Social Robotics

    Aug 12, 2026Anh Duc Do, Volodymyr Scherbyna, Tai Duc Nguyen +5Robotics SimulationFunctional 3D Scene Generation

    Singapore Management University · Technical University Berlin · Max Planck Institute +1

  51. WorldSimProbe: Diagnosing Simulator Faithfulness in Action-Conditioned World Models for Embodied Manipulation

    Aug 10, 2026Peterson Co, Sicheng Hu, Chunxuan Jiao +17Robotics SimulationAction-Conditioned World Models

    State Key Laboratory of Multimedia Information Processing, School of Computer Science, Peking University

  52. EsaacSim: A Multimodal Event Camera Add-on for NVIDIA Isaac Sim

    Aug 9, 2026Ignacio Bugueno-Cordova, Malte Kuhlmann, Nicolás Navarro-Guerrero +2Event-Based VisionRobotics Simulation

    Leibniz Universität Hannover, L3S Research Center, Hanover, Germany · Ekumen, Buenos Aires, Argentina · University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark +1

  53. Lingjing: A Simulation Testbed for Multi-Agent Embodied Tasks in Open-Ended Cities

    Aug 8, 2026Xiaohe Li, Yiru Wang, Junhao Fan +6Multi-Agent CoordinationRobotics Simulation

    the Key Laboratory of Target Cognition and Application Technology, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences · School of Artificial Intelligence, Shanghai Jiaotong University

  54. R2S-EGO: Dual-Proxy Refinement for Sparse-Capture Real-to-Sim

    Aug 7, 2026Shuai Fang, Xin Deng, Yuchen Kang +2Robotics SimulationSynthetic Data Generation for Robotics

    XPENG Robotics · The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

  55. IcFuzz: Fuzzing Isaac Sim with Semantic Stage Guidance and Multi-level Mutation

    Aug 6, 2026Zhixiang Chen, Zhuangbin Chen, Ruoxi Jia +4Automated Software TestingRobotics Simulation

    Sun Yat-sen University Zhuhai, China · Zhuhai Key Laboratory of Trusted Large Language Models, Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai, China · Nanyang Technological University Singapore, Singapore +1

  56. Failing Gracefully: Mitigating Impact of Inevitable Robot Failures

    Aug 5, 2026Duc M. Nguyen, Saad A. Ghani, Andrew Marshall +3Robotics SimulationRobotics

    Department of Computer Science, George Mason University · RobotiXX Lab, George Mason University

  57. RORA: Realistic Object Reconstruction with Articulation

    Aug 5, 2026Hyesung Lee, Youngseon Lee, Kyutae Lee +2Articulated Object Reconstruction3D Asset Generation

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

  58. Bridging the Sim-to-Real Gap in Parallel-Link Leg Mechanisms via Simulator-Side Dynamics Normalization

    Aug 3, 2026Jinsong Hong, Jangho Kim, Jihwan Lee +2Robotics SimulationSim-to-Real Transfer

    Department of Robotics and Mechatronics Engineering, DGIST, Daegu 42988, Republic of Korea · Artificial Intelligence Major, DGIST, Daegu, Republic of Korea · Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, USA

  59. BWM: A Low-Cost High-Fidelity World Simulator for Robot Learning

    Jul 31, 2026BWM TeamWorld Models for RoboticsRobotics Simulation

  60. Simulation of Surgical Suturing Using Position-Based Dynamics and the Material Point Method for Robot Reinforcement Learning

    Jul 29, 2026Tleukhan Mussin, Yafei Ou, Mahdi TavakoliRL for RoboticsRobotics Simulation

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada · Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada