Austin Robotics - Simulate, Train, Tune: How a Humanoid Learns

​Talk: Simulate, Train, Tune: How a Humanoid Learns

​Description: Getting a robot policy to work in a demo is the easy part. Getting it to work in deployment is where most projects stall. In this talk, Kimate Richards walks through the full simulation, training, and tuning pipeline behind Aida, a bimanual humanoid being built in Austin for elder-care support. Using Aida as the reference, he'll cover building a simulation-ready robot from CAD in NVIDIA Isaac Sim, collecting teleoperation data with Apple Vision Pro, training with GR00T and Cosmos on a DGX Spark, and the tuning loop that closes the gap between sim and the real world. Expect practical lessons on why policies break at handoff, and what to do about it. Q&A to follow.

​Bio: Kimate Richards is Founder & CEO of 10Things, Inc., an Austin-based robotics deployment acceleration company, and an NVIDIA Omniverse Ambassador. He brings roughly 30 years of robotics integration experience, including founding a physical AI team at AWS as a Senior Strategic Architect and holding engineering leadership roles for Apple, Amazon, and Mastercard. A Navy and Army Reserve veteran and Civil Air Patrol pilot, he is active in robotics education and upskilling with universities and community colleges.

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