“Simulators have significantly accelerated engineering development in robotics, making a profound impact on advancing technological progress in this field. However, as simulation models cannot perfectly replicate robots’ behavior in real world, there exists a notable sim-to-real gap. Given the high cost of acquiring large amounts of real-world robot data, data augmentation using simulators is an essential step towards advanced robot intelligence. Robotic Sim2Real Challenges aim to encourage more students and researchers to explore the cooperative method using simulators and real-robots, and to systematically investigate effective approaches for their matching.
Hopefully, this will lay a theoretical foundation and provide practical experience for the sustainable development of embodied intelligence. Robotic Sim2Real Challenges have already been held for 3 times in conjunction with ICRA Since 20221. For ICRA 2025, we propose the 4th Robotic Sim2Real Challenges with two tracks: the mobile manipulation track and the flying robot track. The former is a consecutive event of pervious AgileX Sim2Real Challenge (AXS). The latter is a consecutive event of pervious RoboMaster University Sim2Real Challenge (RMUS) with a new flying robot instead of DJI’s RoboMaster EP (DJI’s product EP has been discontinued.). For both tracks, we provide a photorealistic simulator supporting end-to-end embodied AI model training and parallel reinforcement learning training.”
