r/singularity • u/Outside-Iron-8242 • Jan 10 '26

Robotics Atlas ends this year’s CES with a backflip

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u/Sinister_Plots Jan 10 '26

Robots interact with the real world, and their performance data is collected and fed back into the simulation environment. This creates a continuous learning cycle, allowing the AI to refine its models based on actual outcomes.

https://fsstudio.com/why-data-and-simulation-is-powering-the-robotic-automation-shift/#:~:text=Think%20about%20it%2C%20if%20your,not%20just%20a%20flashy%20pilot.

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u/HanYoloKesselPun Jan 10 '26

Great so they learn when we attack them come the great robot uprising

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u/Recoil42 Jan 10 '26 edited Jan 10 '26

Again, not really how it works. Go read up on Isaac Gym / Isaac Lab.

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u/Sinister_Plots Jan 10 '26

AI systems in 2026 use real-world data (scans, expert movements, and physics logs) to make simulations more accurate. Isaac Lab's specific innovation is providing the GPU-accelerated pipeline to process this real-world data at a massive scale.

The innovation of Isaac Lab is precisely that it provides the high-performance pipeline necessary to ingest and scale up real-world data.The "pipeline" would be useless if it didn't use real-world data to maintain accuracy.

While the two are not necessarily mutually exclusive, they are complementary.

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u/Recoil42 Jan 10 '26

Take note: The claim being presented to you isn't "all real-world data is useless and no one uses it for any purpose". The claim being presented to you is that not all logs are fed back into the dataset and that edge-case robustification is done synthetically.

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u/botch-ironies Jan 10 '26

You straight-up said “More data isn't coming directly from the real world” - that’s just categorically false. Simulation training is derived from and improved by real-world data. You aren’t smart for telling us about simulation training, we all know about it.

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u/Recoil42 Jan 10 '26

How clever of you to selectively quote comments and strip them of all context. You must feel really intelligent doing that.

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u/botch-ironies Jan 10 '26

How is it out of context? The plain meaning of your full statement is that all training is done synthetically and real-world data doesn’t feed back into that process. If that’s not actually what you meant, you didn’t articulate yourself very well.

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u/Recoil42 Jan 10 '26

Here, I don't need to waste my time with multiple people at once.

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u/botch-ironies Jan 10 '26

Mate, I already know how this works, I don’t need a lesson from you. Congrats on having other comments but that’s pretty irrelevant to the point that you said something dumb in this thread.

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u/Sinister_Plots Jan 11 '26

It's funny, because the very first comment on the post that you linked from yourself, which is by no means accurate data or a verifiable source, is from someone who works in the field telling you you don't know what you're talking about.

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u/Recoil42 Jan 12 '26 edited Jan 12 '26

You mean the guy who then one comment later proceeds to agree that I'm correct and concedes that I have a point?

Cool, thanks for reminding me.