Industrial Next retweeted
Manufacturers aren't ready for what's to come.
Physical AGI is revolutionising the factory floor, a bolt, a simulation and an edge case at a time. What we are seeing unfold on production lines is a technical revolution comparable only to that of the Industrial Revolution.
In this episode, we talk to Lukas Pankau & Gilwoo Lee of @IndustrialNxtAI, who are reshaping the manufacturing landscape with R2S2R, their new 10,000 sq ft facility and more.
IndustrialNext has had a stellar year. From acquiring Zordi, a BMW Group Technology Office partnership and much more. We cover their technology, when physical AGI will be truly achieved, and the steps to get there.
Full discussion 👇
06:28 When physical AI actually reaches the factory floor
09:40 How learned robots differ from traditional automation
11:31 China, hardware costs and speed to market
14:55 Reshoring, shifting regulation and the first target industries
19:13 Where learned control ends and deterministic control begins
23:20 Why zero shot has no place in a factory
25:20 Fitting robots into legacy factories
29:51 What transferred from strawberry picking
34:13 Inside the Real2Sim2Real pipeline and its gaps
46:10 The new 10,000 sq ft facility and its 50+ robots
50:35 What has kept them going on their journeys
Today we’re launching the Real2Sim2Real (R2S2R) Arena at our SF HQ, a first-of-its-kind testing ground uniting simulation, robot learning, and real-world deployment for #PhysicalAI. 🤖🔃
Announcement: linkedin.com/pulse/industria…
Sim2World: sim2world.ai
The facility also anchors Sim2World, an open benchmarking platform now live for teams to contribute tasks, train policies, and validate results on real robots.
Thank you to our partners
@NVIDIARobotics ,@khoslaventures, Versor, AllSides, Paddy, @FlexivRobotics, @meuk_les, @UW
Personal Robotics Lab, and @Cambridge_Uni CamRAL.
Industrial Next retweeted
Connect real robot behavior, simulation, and deployment. 🤖
Join @IndustrialNxtAI, Versor, and @allsides_tech to explore work on closing the Sim2Real gap and discover the R2S2R Arena, an open research coalition.
📅 Tuesday, October 6 @ 11 AM PT
🔗 nvda.ws/4rO5eQV
One week until we unveil the Real2Sim2Real (R2S2R) Arena
High-precision tasks go from our floor to simulation and back to physical robots, across 50+ robotic workstations at our 10,000 sq.ft. SF HQ.
RSVP: lnkd.in/gKD3YYQ9
Oct 8 | 4:00 - 7:00 PM
Excited to welcome @KhoslaVentures, @FlexivRobotics , and @Mitsubishi Electric as launch partners, joining @NVIDIARobotics, @allsides_tech , Versor, Paddy, @UW , and @Cambridge_Uni . More to be announced!
We're uniting teams at the frontier of Physical AI to close the Real2Sim2Real gap on the path to Physical AGI. Teams will be able to reproduce failures, compare sim and real performance, and evaluate policies across robotic platforms in one place.
On Oct 8, we're opening the Real2Sim2Real (R2S2R) Arena: a first-of-its-kind Physical AI testing facility in SF with 50+ semi-humanoids, uniting simulation, robot learning, and real-world deployment under one roof.
RSVP: partiful.com/e/NTTIOqL7EtbaO…
We’re launching with @nvidia , whose Isaac Sim and Newton physics engine anchor our simulation stack
– plus Versor, @allsides_tech , Paddy, @FlexivRobotics , @Cambridge_Uni , with more to be announced soon!
Join us for the launch
📅 Thu, Oct 8
🕓 4–7 PM
📍 428 3rd St, San Francisco
🎟️ RSVP: partiful.com/e/NTTIOqL7EtbaO…
IndustrialNext has acquired @zordifarm , a pioneer in foundation models for dexterous manipulation and #Real2Sim2Real (R2S2R) 🦾
@gilwoo_lee , PhD joins as CTO to to lead #PhysicalAI research and build the first #R2S2R Arena at our 10,000 sq.ft. San Francisco HQ.






