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  1. Tactile Sim2Real without Tactile Simulation via Bottlenecked Latent Reconstruction

    Aug 16, 2026Fan Yang, Youngsun Wi, Jinhao Yu +2Sim-to-Real TransferTactile Sensing for Robotic Manipulation

    University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA · Google DeepMind

  2. RoboSynChallenge: Mastering Real-World Dexterity via Generalizing Synthesized Manipulation Skills

    Aug 12, 2026Runyi Zhao, Ruixin Wu, Chengkun Li +15Sim-to-Real TransferGeneralization in Robotic Manipulation

    Shenzhen Loop Area Institute (SLAI) · The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen · DexForce +8

  3. FaLCon: Facet-Anchored Retrieval with Late Consensus for Sim2Real Text-Based Person Anomaly Search

    Aug 10, 2026Hieu Dinh Trung Pham, Phuong Huu Vu Tran, Thuan Duc Mai +6Fine-Grained Image RetrievalSim-to-Real Transfer

    PAMI Lab, Vietnamese-German University, Vietnam · Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, Vietnam · Ho Chi Minh city University of Science, Vietnam +2

  4. LyEvO: Lyapunov-Guided Evolutionary Optimization for Safe and Robust Sim-to-Real Policy Learning

    Aug 6, 2026Riccardo Curcio, Hongpeng Cao, Marco CaccamoRobot Policy LearningEvolutionary Optimization

    Department of Computer Science, Sapienza University of Rome, via Salaria 113, 00198 Rome, Italy · School of Engineering and Design, Technical University of Munich, Boltzmannstraße 15, 85748 Garching b. München, Germany

  5. Open-DiffLoco: Open-Source Differentiable Learning for Deployable Blind Quadruped Locomotion

    Aug 3, 2026Martin OpatSim-to-Real TransferRL for Legged Locomotion

    University of Groningen, Netherlands

  6. 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

  7. Reinforcement Learning on Cost-Constrained Quadrupedal Hardware

    Jul 29, 2026Javier C. Weddington, Bence P. Ölveczky, Stephen A. BaccusDynamical SystemsReinforcement Learning

    Neurosciences Interdepartmental Program, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305 USA · Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA · Department of Neurobiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305 USA

  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. mmSimPrior: Learning Simulation Priors for Data-Efficient and Generalizable Real-World Radar-based Human Motion Reconstruction

    Jul 25, 2026Cheng Guo, Qiming Cao, Shengkai Xu +4Synthetic Data PretrainingSim-to-Real Transfer

    University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, USA · Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA

  12. 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

  13. Bridging the Sim-to-Real Gap under Real-Time Constraints in Autonomous Racing

    Jul 20, 2026Hossein Maghsoumi, Yaser P. FallahAutonomous Driving BenchmarksSim-to-Real Transfer

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Central Florida Orlando, USA

  14. Optimization of sim-to-real transfer in the humanoid robot NICO

    Jul 20, 2026Juraj Gavura, Igor FarkašRobotic GraspingSim-to-Real Transfer

    Department of Applied Informatics Comenius University Bratislava, Slovakia

  15. World Translation: Minimizing Sim-to-Real Gap with Backward Dynamics Extraction and Unpaired Domain Translation

    Jul 20, 2026Xinchen Yao, Leixin Chang, Hua ChenRobot Dynamics IdentificationSynthetic-to-Real Domain Adaptation

    Zhejiang University · LimX Dynamics

  16. Isaac Sim-to-Real: Reinforcement Learning based Locomotion for Quadrupeds

    Jul 20, 2026Jordan Dowdy, Jean Chagas VazSim-to-Real TransferWhole-Body Control

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Louisville · Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, 40208, USA

  17. Learning a System-Level Surrogate for Hydraulic Excavators: A Simulation-to-Real LSTM Approach

    Jul 17, 2026Shuai Wang, Shen Wang, Qiang Wang +4Neural Surrogate ModelingRobotic Construction

    National Engineering Research Center of Mobile Network Technologies, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China · Yaowu (Shenzhen) Technology Co., Ltd., Shenzhen 518052, China

  18. Difference-Based Relational Learning for Zero-Shot Object-Goal Visual Navigation With Direct Sim-to-Real Transfer

    Jul 17, 2026Guolei Qi, Feitian ZhangZero-Shot LearningRepresentation Learning

    Guolei Qi and Feitian Zhang*

  19. Exploratory, Communicative, and Deployable: Vision-Driven Embodied Agents for Open-World Mobile Manipulation

    Jul 15, 2026Boyu Mi, Mengchen Ma, Yifei Yao +10Mobile ManipulationSim-to-Real Transfer

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory · Southeast University +4

  20. A Minimalist Retargeting-Guided Reinforcement Learning Recipe for Dexterous Manipulation

    Jul 13, 2026Yunhai Feng, Natalie Leung, Jiaxuan Wang +3Robot Skill LearningContact-Rich Robotic Manipulation

    Cornell University · Amazon FAR

  21. Affordance-Based Manipulation Planning with Text Goals and Sim-to-Real Generalisation via Real-to-Sim Image Conversion

    Jul 13, 2026Solvi Arnold, Rin Karashima, Tadashi Adachi +2World Models for RoboticsLanguage-Conditioned Robot Manipulation

    SA is at NICT, Japan. Work performed while at Shinshu University, Japan. · Work performed while at Shinshu University, Japan. · RK, TA, TM are at EPSON Avasys, Japan. +1

  22. A Single Diffusion-Policy Controller for Multi-Task Block Pushing with Zero-Shot Sim-to-Real Transfer

    Jul 12, 2026Haitong Ma, Haldun Balim, Yang Hu +2Sim-to-Real TransferDiffusion Policy

    1Harvard University. · 2Georgia Institute of Technology.

  23. Measure the Sim-to-Real Gap: Designing an Affordable Real-World Benchmark Platform for Reinforcement Learning in AIoT Systems

    Jul 11, 2026Rongping Zhou, Omid Tavallaie, Shuaijun Chen +1RL BenchmarksReinforcement Learning

    School of Computer Science, The University of Sydney, Camperdown NSW 2050, Australia · Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Wellington Square, Oxford OX1 2JD, United Kingdom · Department of Computer Science, The University of Western Australia, 241, 35 Stirling Hwy, Crawley WA 6009

  24. CORL-AUV: CFD Oriented Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles

    Jul 10, 2026Steven Roche, Milo Van Mooy, Nathan McGuire +3RL ControlRL for Robotics

    MIT-WHOI Joint Program, MA 02543, USA · WHOI, MA 02543, USA · Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02319, USA

  25. A Comprehensive Survey and Systematic Real-World Evaluation of Embodied Vision-and-Language Navigation

    Jul 9, 2026Liuyi Wang, Kai Sheng, Zongtao He +8Embodied NavigationMobile Robotics

    College of Electronic and Information Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

  26. GraspIT: A Dataset Bridging the Sim-to-Real gap and back for Validated Grasping SE(3) Pose Generation

    Jul 7, 2026Paul Koch. Adem Karakurt, André SersRobotic GraspingRobotic Data Collection

    Fraunhofer IPK Pascalstraße 8-9, 10587 Berlin, Germany

  27. Closing the Reality Gap: Zero-Shot Sim-to-Real Deployment for Dexterous Force-Based Grasping and Manipulation

    Jul 6, 2026Zhe Zhao, Zhibin Li, Yilin Ou +1Robotic GraspingDexterous Manipulation

    State Key Laboratory of Networking and Switching Technology Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China · University College London, United Kingdom

  28. SILO: Simulation-in-the-Loop Sim-to-Real Transfer for Multi-Stage Cable Routing

    Jul 6, 2026Stone Tao, Jie Xu, Hesam Rabeti +3RL for RoboticsSim-to-Real Transfer

    1NVIDIA Corporation · University of California, San Diego

  29. Mask2Real-WM: Controllable Dexterous World Models via Segmentation Masks as a Sim-to-Real Bridge

    Jul 5, 2026Riccardo O. Feingold, Davide Liconti, Chenyu Yang +1World Models for RoboticsSim-to-Real Transfer

    Soft Robotic Lab, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering ETH Zurich, Switzerland

  30. Anticipatory Reinforcement Learning for Trajectory Tracking

    Jul 3, 2026Georg Schäfer, Jakob Rehrl, Stefan Huber +1RL ControlRobot Trajectory Tracking

    Josef Ressel Centre for Intelligent and Secure Industrial Automation, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Salzburg, Austria · Paris Lodron University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria