The Reality Gap: A Sim-to-Real Seminar

Luma Event Link The Reality Gap is a monthly working seminar on sim-to-real transfer running September through January. Each session takes up a different part of the problem: perception, contact and manipulation, data collection, locomotion (the field's one clear success), and world models. The format is the same every month: a talk from a researcher working on the problem, then a working discussion over dinner. Talks are recorded. The discussion is not. Session one opens with a short talk and the discussion that follows sets the baseline for the series: what each person in the room is trying to transfer, where it breaks, and what's missing. We write the answers down and return to them in January. The room is capped at 40 and registration requires approval. Fifteen to twenty seats belong to a core group that commits to the full series; the rest open each month. The core group forms at session one. The seminar is for researchers and engineers training policies in simulation and deploying them on hardware, for people building simulators, and for people collecting the data underneath. Dinner is provided by Protege, whose research team works on training data with frontier labs. A photographer and videographer will be on site. By attending you consent to appearing in photos and video. Request a seat and include a line about what you're working on. Hosted by Rally SF and Mission Robotics. Presented with Protege. Rey Pocius, M.S. is a Machine Learning Researcher at Protege, where he leads research for the spatial and physical intelligence vertical. His work defines what data quality means for the foundation models behind embodied AI and world modeling, and studies how it shapes their performance. His research background spans robotics, explainable AI, reinforcement learning, diffusion and transformer models, and multimodal learning. (datalab.withprotege.ai) Rally SF is a community for AI-first builders and operators in San Francisco. location provided by event source: "3001 19th St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA" ―――――――――― SF Stuff To Do