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sim-to-real transfer

noun

also simulation-to-reality transfer or simulation-to-real transfer or sim2real transfer

TopicRobotics & Physical AI Senses1

Definition of sim-to-real transfer

  1. : the transfer of an AI model, perception capability, or control policy learned in a simulated environment to a real physical system

    • The team trained the walking policy in simulation, then tested sim-to-real transfer on the physical robot.
    • Changes in lighting and camera noise reduced the detector's accuracy during sim-to-real transfer.
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Sources & further reading

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  1. Sim-to-Real Transfer for Mobile Robots with Reinforcement Learning: from NVIDIA Isaac Sim to Gazebo and Real ROS 2 Robots arXiv · 2025-01
  2. Humanoid-Gym: Reinforcement Learning for Humanoid Robot with Zero-Shot Sim2Real Transfer arXiv · 2024-04
  3. Which synthetic data or simulation platforms are built to minimize the sim-to-real gap, and how? NVIDIA · 2026-09-02

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