SimEX: Simulation-Integrated Robotics AutoResearch

arXiv:2609.38982 · cs.RO, cs.AI, cs.LG · Submitted 2026-09-30 · Read on arXiv

cs.RO, cs.AI, cs.LG

Submitted: 2026-09-30

Updated: 2026-09-30

Code: https://github.com/google-deepmind/mujoco_

Project page: https://robo-simex.github.io

Terminology

• Adaptation — 16× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Ablation — 11× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Sim-to-Real Transfer — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Agentic Optimization — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Trace — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Calibration — 2× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Fidelity — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation — 2× in this paper
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 2× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Online Adaptation — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Ablation study — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adam — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmarking — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Digital Twin — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Distillation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Failure Modes — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Foundation Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Foundation Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Grounding — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Knowledge Distillation — 1× in this paper · explained in 11 episodes
• Multimodal Reasoning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Regret — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Sim-to-Real Gap — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Steering — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verification — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Vision-language models — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Zero-Shot Transfer — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes

Sources

• Show-Harness: Just a VLM Agent Can Play Robots
• Automated Creation of Digital Cousins for Robust Policy Learning
• CaP-X: A Framework for Benchmarking and Improving Coding Agents for Robot Manipulation
• Open-vocabulary Object Detection via Vision and Language Knowledge Distillation
• What Matters in Orchestrating Robot Policies: A Systematic Study of Hierarchical VLA Agents
• VoxPoser: Composable 3D Value Maps for Robotic Manipulation with Language Models
• Agent as Policy for Robotic Manipulation
• RMA: Rapid Motor Adaptation for Legged Robots
• FLASH: Fast Learning via GPU-Accelerated Simulation for High-Fidelity Deformable Manipulation in Minutes
• DrEureka: Language Model Guided Sim-To-Real Transfer
• RoboCodeX: Multimodal Code Generation for Robotic Behavior Synthesis
• AlphaEvolve: A coding agent for scientific and algorithmic discovery
• Reconciling Reality through Simulation: A Real-to-Sim-to-Real Approach for Robust Manipulation
• Voyager: An Open-Ended Embodied Agent with Large Language Models
• RoboGen: Towards Unleashing Infinite Data for Automated Robot Learning via Generative Simulation
• ENPIRE: Agentic Robot Policy Self-Improvement in the Real World
• Creative Robot Tool Use with Large Language Models
• Vision-as-Inverse-Graphics Agent via Interleaved Multimodal Reasoning
• Bootstrap Your Own Skills: Learning to Solve New Tasks with Large Language Model Guidance
• Playful Agentic Robot Learning

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