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The scalability of embodied intelligence is fundamentally constrained by the scarcity of real-world interaction data. While simulation platforms provide a promising alternative, existing approaches often suffer from a substantial visual and…

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3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has emerged as a prominent 3D representation for high-fidelity and real-time rendering. Prior work has coupled physics simulation with Gaussians, but predominantly targets soft, deformable materials, leaving…

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Efficient acquisition of real-world embodied data has been increasingly critical. However, large-scale demonstrations captured by remote operation tend to take extremely high costs and fail to scale up the data size in an efficient manner.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Xinhai Li , Jialin Li , Ziheng Zhang , Rui Zhang , Fan Jia , Tiancai Wang , Haoqiang Fan , Kuo-Kun Tseng , Ruiping Wang

We present Megaverse, a new 3D simulation platform for reinforcement learning and embodied AI research. The efficient design of our engine enables physics-based simulation with high-dimensional egocentric observations at more than 1,000,000…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-22 Aleksei Petrenko , Erik Wijmans , Brennan Shacklett , Vladlen Koltun

While 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has revolutionized photorealistic rendering, its vast ecosystem of assets remains incompatible with high-performance LiDAR simulation, a critical tool for robotics and autonomous driving. We present…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Junzhe Wu , Yufei Jia , Yiyi Yan , Zhixing Chen , Tiao Tan , Zifan Wang , Guangyu Wang

Recent advances in imitation learning have shown significant promise for robotic control and embodied intelligence. However, achieving robust generalization across diverse mounted camera observations remains a critical challenge. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Travis Davies , Jiahuan Yan , Xiang Chen , Yu Tian , Yueting Zhuang , Yiqi Huang , Luhui Hu

This paper introduces Unity RL Playground, an open-source reinforcement learning framework built on top of Unity ML-Agents. Unity RL Playground automates the process of training mobile robots to perform various locomotion tasks such as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Linqi Ye , Rankun Li , Xiaowen Hu , Jiayi Li , Boyang Xing , Yan Peng , Bin Liang

Real-time immersive video communications, particularly high-fidelity 3D telepresence, necessitates a synergistic balance between instantaneous dynamic scene reconstruction and high-efficiency data transmission. While recent advancements in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-29 Dingxi Yang , Wenqi Guo , Yue Liu , Jungong Han , Zhijin Qin

This thesis introduces "Embodied Spatial Intelligence" to address the challenge of creating robots that can perceive and act in the real world based on natural language instructions. To bridge the gap between Large Language Models (LLMs)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Jiading Fang

3D Gaussian splatting (GS) has emerged as a transformative technique in radiance fields. Unlike mainstream implicit neural models, 3D GS uses millions of learnable 3D Gaussians for an explicit scene representation. Paired with a…

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Despite the substantial progress in deep learning, its adoption in industrial robotics projects remains limited, primarily due to challenges in data acquisition and labeling. Previous sim2real approaches using domain randomization require…

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As the demand for immersive 3D content grows, the need for intuitive and efficient interaction methods becomes paramount. Current techniques for physically manipulating 3D content within Virtual Reality (VR) often face significant…

Recent advances in robotic learning in simulation have shown impressive results in accelerating learning complex manipulation skills. However, the sim-to-real gap, caused by discrepancies between simulation and reality, poses significant…

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Neural reconstruction models for autonomous driving simulation have made significant strides in recent years, with dynamic models becoming increasingly prevalent. However, these models are typically limited to handling in-domain objects…

Legged robots must achieve both robust locomotion and energy efficiency to be practical in real-world environments. Yet controllers trained in simulation often fail to transfer reliably, and most existing approaches neglect…

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Humanoid robot manipulation is a crucial research area for executing diverse human-level tasks, involving high-level semantic reasoning and low-level action generation. However, precise scene understanding and sample-efficient learning from…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Xuetao Li , Wenke Huang , Mang Ye , Jifeng Xuan , Bo Du , Sheng Liu , Miao Li

Recent advances in foundation models have shown promising results in developing generalist robotics that can perform diverse tasks in open-ended scenarios given multimodal inputs. However, current work has been mainly focused on indoor,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Yan Zhuang , Jiawei Ren , Xiaokang Ye , Jianzhi Shen , Ruixuan Zhang , Tianai Yue , Muhammad Faayez , Xuhong He , Ziqiao Ma , Lianhui Qin , Zhiting Hu , Tianmin Shu

Fast and accurate physics simulation is an essential component of robot learning, where robots can explore failure scenarios that are difficult to produce in the real world and learn from unlimited on-policy data. Yet, it remains…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Alan Yu , Ge Yang , Ran Choi , Yajvan Ravan , John Leonard , Phillip Isola

Neural implicit representations, including Neural Distance Fields and Neural Radiance Fields, have demonstrated significant capabilities for reconstructing surfaces with complicated geometry and topology, and generating novel views of a…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Lin Gao , Jie Yang , Bo-Tao Zhang , Jia-Mu Sun , Yu-Jie Yuan , Hongbo Fu , Yu-Kun Lai

Virtual Reality simulators offer a powerful tool for teacher training, yet the integration of AI-powered student avatars presents a critical challenge: determining the optimal level of avatar realism for effective pedagogy. This literature…

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