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Agentic Real2Sim: Physics-based World Modeling with Vision-Language Agents

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TL;DR - Agentic Real2Sim uses vision-language agents to turn recordings of robot-object interactions into runnable physics simulations. It aims to reduce manual real-to-simulation work and support scalable robot policy training and evaluation.

  • Reconstructs geometry, object states, physical parameters, cameras, poses, and trajectories.
  • Handles rigid-object manipulation, deformable-object interaction, and humanoid motion within one framework.
  • Produces episodic digital twins preserving observations, interactions, and state changes.
  • An open-weight VLM reportedly achieves conversion success comparable to frontier models at substantially lower cost.

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Agentic Real2Sim: Physics-based World Modeling with Vision-Language Agents

arXiv cs.RO Guanxiong Chen, Qianjun Xia, Jiawei Peng, Heng Zhang, Bole Ma, Justin Qian, Ziyi Jiao, Bingyang Zhou, Luoxin Ye, Kaifeng Zhang, Kunyi Wang, Weijia Zeng, Yunuo Chen, Pengzhi Yang, Ziqiu Zeng, Huamin Wang, Chao Liu, Alan Yuille, Fan Shi, Changxi Zheng, Yunzhu Li, Chenfanfu Jiang, Peter Yichen Chen 2026-07-21 arXiv:2607.19190

TL;DR - Agentic Real2Sim uses vision-language agents to turn recordings of robot-object interactions into runnable physics simulations. It aims to reduce manual real-to-simulation work and support scalable robot policy training and evaluation.

  • Reconstructs geometry, object states, physical parameters, cameras, poses, and trajectories.
  • Handles rigid-object manipulation, deformable-object interaction, and humanoid motion within one framework.
  • Produces episodic digital twins preserving observations, interactions, and state changes.
  • An open-weight VLM reportedly achieves conversion success comparable to frontier models at substantially lower cost.
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