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  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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.

  4. Image2Sim: Scaling Embodied Navigation via Generative Neural Simulator

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

    National University of Singapore · HKUST

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. 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

  13. 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

  14. 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

  15. 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

  16. 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

  17. 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

  18. 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

  19. 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

  20. 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

  21. 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

  22. 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

  23. 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

  24. 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

  25. 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

  26. 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

  27. 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

  28. 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

  29. 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

  30. 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