Yunzhu Li
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 28 Jul
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At Cynics, we are developing what we call a real-to-sim-to-real pipeline.
We can replace all the data, all the evaluation we need in the real environment by using the data that can generate at a scalable way in our digital world.
What we are building is a consistent world.
Consistency both over space, over time, over different viewpoints, and over different types of interactions.
My North Star is I want the robotic work.
Yeah, so I'm Yunzhu.
So I'm currently co-founder of Cynics and also assistant professor at Columbia University.
So my research started from my PhD at MIT and then postdoc with Fei-Fei.
Really?
Yes.
That's great.
The world is small.
Throughout my career, my goal has been very simple, trying to help the robots better perceive and interact with the physical world.
So I'm a very practical person.
I want my robot to work in a real physical environment.
So for Cynics, the unique opportunity we see is that there has been a lot of bottlenecks.
Right now, we see faced by the developments of general-purpose robots, especially around training and also around evaluations.
So at Cynics, we are developing what we call a real-to-sim-to-real pipeline.
We want to map the real environments into the digital world that has the best alignments with the real environments.
By alignment, we mean that whatever happens in the digital world is also going to happen in the real environment, such that we can replace all the data, all the evaluation we need in the real environment by using the data that can generate at a scalable way in our digital world.
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