arXiv:2602. 20220v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We investigate what specific design choices enable successful online reinforcement learning (RL) on physical robots.
By Yarden As, Dhruva Tirumala, Ren\'e Zurbr\"ugg, Chenhao Li, Stelian Coros, Andreas Krause, Markus Wulfmeier
arXiv:2606. 06218v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A policy tuned for one robot often behaves differently on another, whether due to the sim-to-real gap, unknown payloads, or the differing dynamics of two instances of the same robot.
By Dongwon Son, Florian Shkurti, Jason Lee, Naman Shah, Beomjoon Kim, Dieter Fox
arXiv:2505. 01458v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Navigation and manipulation are core capabilities in Embodied AI, but training agents to perform them directly in the real world is costly, time-consuming, and unsafe.
By Lik Hang Kenny Wong, Xueyang Kang, Kaixin Bai, Jianwei Zhang
arXiv:2606. 10366v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Simulation has become an essential tool for evaluating and improving vision-language-action (VLA) policies, offering scalable, reproducible, and controllable alternatives to costly real-world robot evaluation.
By Shuo Wang, Hanyuan Xu, Yingdong Hu, Fanqi Lin, Yang Gao
arXiv:2606. 02636v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While sim2real efforts are necessary for effective policy transfer to hardware, there is such a thing as too much of a good thing.
By Kyle Morgenstein, Bharath Masetty, Stephen Welch, Luis Sentis