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  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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

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

    Jul 31, 2026BWM TeamWorld Models for RoboticsRobotics Simulation

  5. 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

  6. BioVLN: A Simulation Platform for Visual Language Navigation in Biomedical Laboratories

    Jul 29, 2026Zhe Liu, Quan Lu, Zhaohui Du +7Robotics SimulationRobot Navigation

    Key Laboratory of Smart Manufacturing in Energy Chemical Process, MoE, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China · Department of Computer Science and Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China · Department of Laboratory Medicine, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China +1

  7. SONG: A Photorealistic 3D Gaussian Simulation Platform for Benchmarking Social Navigation

    Jul 28, 2026Weiqi Huang, Dianyi Yang, Jiaxin Li +4Robotics SimulationSocial Robot Navigation

    School of Computer Science & Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology

  8. Effective Parameters, Real Behavior: Renormalization for Robotics -- From Infinite Electron Mass to Sim-to-Real Gap

    Jul 27, 2026Youran Sun, Jiaxuan Guo, Xingyu Ren +2Robotic ControlRobotics Simulation

    University of Maryland, College Park · Stanford University · The Chinese University of Hong Kong

  9. Sling2Sim2Real: One-Shot Elastic System Identification for Non-Destructive Slingshot Policy Learning

    Jul 25, 2026Wonjae Kang, Geonwoo Kim, Minseok Song +1Robot Dynamics IdentificationRobotics Simulation

    School of Computing, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea

  10. Real2Sim2Real for Vision-Language-Action Manipulation: An AMD ROCm-Based Pipeline

    Jul 25, 2026Qing Yang, Xun Wang, Ziguan Wang +3Language-Conditioned Robot ManipulationRobotics Simulation

    AMD AIG Team · Beijing Institute of Technology

  11. A Replay-Constrained Simulation Framework for Personalization of Powered Knee--Ankle Prosthesis Controllers

    Jul 24, 2026Duong Le, Ryan Posh, Shihao Cheng +2Robotics SimulationSim-to-Real Transfer

    College of Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA

  12. TableVerse: A Large-scale Tabletop Dataset with Real-world Grounded Layouts for Generalizable Manipulation

    Jul 23, 2026Boyuan Wang, Yue Zhang, Xutao Xue +2Robotic Data CollectionRobotics Simulation

    ByteDance

  13. A Conceptual Framework for Refining Influence Knowledge from Simulation Evidence in Cyber-Physical Systems

    Jul 22, 2026Barbara da Silva Oliveira, Julien Deantoni, Nicolas FerryCyber-Physical SystemsRobotics Simulation

    UniCA, Laboratoire I3S - COMRED, KAIROS · Université Côte d’Azur, I3S/INRIA Kairos Sophia Antipolis, France · Laboratoire I3S - COMRED, KAIROS, UniCA

  14. Digital Twin Modeling of a Highly Automated Agricultural Tractor

    Jul 22, 2026Clay Hallman, Lukas Pindl, Timo OksanenRobotics SimulationVehicle Dynamics

    Technical University of Munich, Germany; Professorship of Agrimechatronics; Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence (MIRMI)

  15. NavVerse: Benchmarking Indoor-to-Outdoor Embodied Navigation in Continuous Robot Simulation

    Jul 22, 2026Junzhe Wu, Yue Hu, Zeyu Han +4Embodied NavigationRobotics Simulation

    University of Michigan, Ann Arbor · Tsinghua University

  16. Agentic Real2Sim: Physics-based World Modeling with Vision-Language Agents

    Jul 21, 2026Guanxiong Chen, Qianjun Xia, Jiawei Peng +24World Models for RoboticsRobotics Simulation

    University of British Columbia · National University of Singapore · Johns Hopkins University +4

  17. The Open Ant: A Robot Platform for Reinforcement Learning Research

    Jul 20, 2026Elena Sorina Lupu, Patrick Spieler, Khurram Javed +4Reinforcement LearningRobotics Simulation

    Openmind Research Institute, Canada · Keen Technologies · Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta, Canada

  18. A BIM-enabled, Agent-based Discrete-event Simulation Platform for Robotic Studies: A Method based on Graph Theory

    Jul 18, 2026Ping Xu, Xinghua GaoRobotics SimulationRobot Navigation

    Myers-Lawson School of Construction, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, 24060, United States. · Myers-Lawson School of Construction, Virginia Tech, 320J Hitt Hall, Blacksburg, 24060, United States

  19. Differentiable Reinforcement Learning for Path Tracking by an Agile Fish-Like Robot

    Jul 17, 2026Prashanth Chivkula, Kartik Loya, Venkata Ravindhra Reddy Varikuti +1Robotic ControlRL Control

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, Clemson University, USA

  20. Learning Reach-Avoid Task with Reinforcement Learning: Vectorized Simulation and Benchmark

    Jul 17, 2026Jonas Weihing, Shahram EivaziRobotics SimulationRobotic RL

    *Tübingen university

  21. UniPhysGen: Unified Physical Grounding for Simulation-Ready 3D Assets

    Jul 15, 2026Xian Li, Rong Wei, Lujie Yang +6Physical ReasoningRobotics Simulation

    Zhejiang University · Manycore Tech Inc. · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China

  22. DemoBridge: A Simulation-in-the-Loop Toolkit for Single-View Human Demonstration Retargeting

    Jul 10, 2026Zehao Wang, Fabien Despinoy, Sergey Zakharov +2Robotics SimulationMotion Retargeting

    §KU Leuven · †Toyota Motor Europe · ‡Toyota Research Institute

  23. EmbodiedGen V2: An Agentic, Simulation-Ready 3D World Engine for Embodied AI

    Jul 8, 2026Xinjie Wang, Liu Liu, Taojun Ding +93D Asset GenerationRobotics Simulation

    Horizon Robotics · WuwenAI

  24. SPEAR: A Simulator for Photorealistic Embodied AI Research

    Jul 7, 2026Mike Roberts, Renhan Wang, Rushikesh Zawar +10Robotics SimulationSynthetic Data Generation for Robotics

    1Adobe Research · 2Intel Labs · 3Manycore Tech Inc +4

  25. RoboSnap: One-Shot Real-to-Sim Scene Generation for Generalizable Robot Learning and Evaluation

    Jul 7, 2026Shujie Zhang, Jingkun Yi, Weipeng Zhong +6Robotics SimulationRobotic Policy Evaluation

    1Shanghai AI Laboratory · 3Zhejiang University · 2Shanghai Jiao Tong University +1

  26. OrchardBench: A Physically-Grounded, GPU-Parallel Apple-Orchard Simulation Benchmark for Agricultural Robotics

    Jul 7, 2026Humphrey MunnRobotics SimulationRobot Manipulation Benchmarks

    School of EECS, The University of Queensland

  27. RoboVAST: Automated Scenario-Based Validation of Robots at Scale

    Jul 7, 2026Frederik Pasch, Samuel Wiest, Argentina Ortega +1Robotics SimulationRobotics

    Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences, Germany. · University of Bremen, Germany.

  28. Image2Sim: Scaling Embodied Navigation via Generative Neural Simulator

    Jul 7, 2026Zihan Wang, Seungjun Lee, Yinghao Xu +1Embodied NavigationRobotics Simulation

    National University of Singapore · HKUST

  29. GPUSimBench: Towards Scalable and Reliable GPU-Accelerated Simulators in Embodied AI

    Jul 6, 2026Huzhenyu Zhang, Shenghai Yuan, Wenrui Yan +4GPU AccelerationRobotics Simulation

    Shanghai AI Laboratory, China · MIRAI, Russia · Nanyang Technological University, Singapore +2

  30. RoboDojo: A Unified Sim-and-Real Benchmark for Comprehensive Evaluation of Generalist Robot Manipulation Policies

    Jul 5, 2026Tianxing Chen, Yue Chen, Zixuan Li +41Long-Horizon Robotic ManipulationLanguage-Conditioned Robot Manipulation

  31. SoftVTBench: A Safety-Aware Visuo-Tactile Benchmark for Physically Constrained Robotic Manipulation of Deformable Objects

    Jul 5, 2026Bowen Jing, Mingxin Wang, Ruiyang Hao +15Tactile SensingRobotics Simulation

    Tuojing Intelligence · Tsinghua University · King’s College London +10

  32. LOTUSim: Multi-Domain Simulator for Marine Robotics

    Jul 3, 2026Cédric Buche, Juliette Grosset, Hélène Lechêne +4Multi-Robot SystemsRobotics Simulation

    CROSSING, IMT Atlantique · CROSSING IRL 2010, CNRS · IMT Atlantique +2

  33. OopsieVerse: A Safety Benchmark with Damage-Aware Simulation for Robot Manipulation

    Jun 30, 2026Arnav Balaji, Arpit Bahety, Sriniket Ambatipudi +3Robotics SimulationRobot Safety

    The University of Texas at Austin

  34. MultiUAV-Plat: An LLM-Oriented Platform, Benchmark and Framework for Multi-UAV Collaborative Task Planning

    Jun 30, 2026Sheng Zhang, Qinglin Li, Yuechao Zang +3Aerial RoboticsLarge Language Model-Based Robot Planning

    National Key Laboratory of Information Systems Engineering, National University of Defense Technology, Deya Road, Changsha, 410073, Hunan, China

  35. Physics Models for Sim-to-Real Transfer in Professional-Level Robot Table Tennis

    Jun 27, 2026Christian Conti, Bilan Yang, Alexander Sigrist +4Robot Dynamics IdentificationRobotics Simulation

    Sony AI, Tokyo, Japan · Sony AI, Zurich, Switzerland · Sony AI, Zürich, Switzerland

  36. ViPSim: Collaborating Visual and Parameter Spaces for Consistent Long-Horizon Embodied World Models

    Jun 27, 2026Longyu Chen, Heng Li, Wei Yang +2Action-Conditioned Video GenerationWorld Models for Robotics

    Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. · Huazhong University of Science and Technology

  37. SimFoundry: Modular and Automated Scene Generation for Policy Learning and Evaluation

    Jun 26, 2026Nadun Ranawaka, Josiah Wong, Wei-Lin Pai +15Robotics SimulationSim-to-Real Transfer

    NVIDIA · Stanford University · The University of Texas at Austin +2

  38. Building a Scalable, Reproducible, Evaluatable, and Closed-Loop Simulation Environment Foundation for Embodied Intelligence

    Jun 26, 2026Junwu Xiong, Yongjian Guo, Mingxi Luo +17Robotics SimulationSynthetic Data Generation for Robotics

    1AI Infra Team at JDT · 2Tsinghua University · 3Peking University +1

  39. Learning to Throw: Agile and Accurate Cable-Suspended Payload Delivery with a Quadrotor

    Jun 25, 2026Yifan Zhai, Elia Raimondi, Yunfan Ren +4RL for RoboticsRobotics Simulation

    Robotics and Perception Group, Department of Informatics, University of Zurich, Switzerland

  40. Support-Constrained RL Enables Real-World Policy Improvement without Real-World Experience

    Jun 25, 2026Raymond Yu, William Huey, Mustafa Mukadam +2RL for RoboticsRobot Policy Adaptation

    University of Washington · Amazon FAR

  41. NavIsaacLab: Generating Realistic Crowd via Parallel Robot Learning for Benchmarking Human-aware Navigation

    Jun 24, 2026Bingyi Xia, Han Bao, Jingyu Zhu +6Robotics SimulationRobot Navigation

    Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China · National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore · Research Institute of MA&EI, Peng Cheng Laboratory, Shenzhen, China +2

  42. GROVE: Grounded Pedestrian Simulation via Natural Language for Interactive Social Robot Navigation

    Jun 24, 2026Duc Tai Nguyen, Volodymyr Shcherbyna, Anh Do Duc +3Pedestrian Behavior ModelingRobotics Simulation

    1Singapore Management University · 2Technical University Berlin · 3National University of Singapore

  43. SwarmFly: A simulation platform for UAV swarm experiment design and validation

    Jun 23, 2026Abhishek Phadke, Karthik Kumar Vasudeva, Abhishek JoshiAerial RoboticsSwarm Robotics

    School of Engineering and Computing, Christopher Newport University · Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Texas Tech University · Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi

  44. Enabling Robust Cloth Manipulation via Inference-Time Simulator-in-the-Loop Refinement

    Jun 23, 2026Xin Liu, Yulin Li, Ziming Li +7Robotics SimulationDeformable Object Manipulation

    National University of Singapore · Shanghai Jiao Tong University

  45. Reinforcement Learning Enables Autonomous Microrobot Navigation and Intervention in Simulated Blood Capillaries

    Jun 23, 2026Jannik Drotleff, Samuel Tovey, Paul Hohenberger +4Robotics SimulationRobot Navigation

    Institute for Computational Physics, University of Stuttgart, Allmandring 3, 70569 Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

  46. A Unified Benchmark for RCM-Constrained Visual Servoing: Modeling-Controller Interaction and Robustness Analysis in Laparoscopic Robots

    Jun 22, 2026Jing Zhang, Mengtang LiRobotic ControlRobotics Simulation

    School of Intelligent Systems Engineering, Shenzhen Campus of Sun Yat-sen University, Shenzhen, China

  47. HERCULES: An Open-Source Simulation Framework for Heterogeneous Multi-Robot SLAM, Collaborative Perception, and Exploration

    Jun 22, 2026Sandilya Sai Garimella, Daniel Chase Butterfield, Sean Wilson +1Simultaneous Localization and MappingMulti-Robot Systems

    Georgia Institute of Technology, USA · Georgia Tech Research Institute, USA · Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA

  48. Do Rigid-Body Simulators Dream of Soft Robots? Learning Contact-Rich Manipulation for Tendon-Driven Continuum Robots

    Jun 21, 2026Chengnan Shentu, Nicholas Baldassini, Tongjia Zheng +2Contact-Rich Robotic ManipulationRobotics Simulation

    University of Toronto, Canada

  49. Tactile Genesis: Exploring Tactile Sensors at Scale for Learning Dexterous Tasks

    Jun 21, 2026Trinity Chung, Kashu Yamazaki, Dhruv Patel +4Dexterous ManipulationRobotics Simulation

    1Carnegie Mellon University · 2Genesis AI

  50. DeformX: A Versatile Co-Simulation Framework for Deformable Linear Objects

    Jun 20, 2026Yi Yang, Xiang Fei, Lehong Wang +5Robotics SimulationSim-to-Real Transfer

    The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA. · School of Ocean and Civil Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan Rd, Minhang District, Shanghai, China. · Zhiyuan College, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan Rd, Minhang District, Shanghai, China. +2

  51. R2HandoverSim: A Simulation Framework and Benchmark for Robot-to-Human Object Handovers

    Jun 19, 2026Hanxin Zhang, Abdulqader Dhafer, Hongbiao Dong +1Robotic GraspingRobotics Simulation

    DANiLab, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK · School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK · School of Metallurgy and Materials, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK

  52. TaCauchy: An Extensible FEM Framework for Vision-Based Tactile Simulation

    Jun 18, 2026Hengfei Zhao, Yifan Xie, Junhao Gong +6Vision-Based Tactile SensingTactile Sensing

    Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen 518055, China · Huawei Inc., Shenzhen, China

  53. Hardware- and Vision-in-the-Loop Validation of Deep Monocular Pose Estimation for Autonomous Maritime UAV Flight

    Jun 17, 2026Maneesha Wickramasuriya, Beomyeol Yu, Jaden Shin +3Robotics SimulationUAV Navigation

    Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, George Washington University, Washington, DC 20052

  54. TactSpace: Learning a Physics-enriched Shared Latent Space for Tactile Sim-to-Real Transfer

    Jun 17, 2026Arunim Joarder, Arjun Bhardwaj, René Zurbrügg +6Cross-Modal Representation LearningTactile Sensing

    Robotic Systems Lab, ETH Zürich · ETH AI Center · NVIDIA +1

  55. R2D-RL: A RoboCup 2D Soccer Environment for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

    Jun 17, 2026Haobin Qin, Baofeng Zhang, Hidehisa Akiyama +1Robotics SimulationRobotics

    Graduate School of Informatics, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan · School of Information and Data Sciences, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan

  56. A Scalable Embodied Intelligence Platform for Seamless Real-to-Sim-to-Real Transfer of Household Mobile Manipulation Tasks

    Jun 17, 2026Kui Yang, Xianlei Long, Haoxuan Li +2Mobile ManipulationRobotics Simulation

    School of Computer Science, Chongqing University, No. 55 Daxuecheng South Road, Shapingba District, Chongqing, 401331, Chongqing, China. · R&D Department, Lumos Robotics Technology (Suzhou) Co., Ltd, No. 17 345 Baodai East Road, Wuzhong District, Suzhou, 215128, Jiangsu, China.

  57. WireCraft: A Simulation Benchmark for Industrial DLO Manipulation

    Jun 16, 2026Chongyu Zhu, Ramy ElMallah, Hyegang Kim +5Robot Policy LearningRobotics Simulation

    Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada · Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Canada · CREFLE Inc., Seongnam, Republic of Korea

  58. GASE: Gaussian Splatting-Based Automated System for Reconstructing Embodied-Simulation Environments

    Jun 16, 2026Jiawei Zhang, Yiming Yan, Chao Liang +83D Gaussian Splatting3D Reconstruction

    AutoLab, SAI, Shanghai Jiao Tong University · AIM3 Lab, School of Information, Renmin University of China · Research Lab, Anyverse Dynamics

  59. MagicSim: A Unified Infrastructure for Executable Embodied Interaction

    Jun 16, 2026Haoran Lu, Songling Liu, Yue Chen +15Robotics SimulationSynthetic Data Generation for Robotics

    1Northwestern University · 2Peking University · 4ShanghaiTech University +1

  60. AnnotateAnything: Automatic Annotation of 3D Assets for Robot Manipulation

    Jun 16, 2026Haoran Lu, Mutian Shen, Shuyang Yu +9Robotic Data CollectionRobotics Simulation

    Northwestern University · Peking University