Jiaheng Hu(@JiahengHu1):We’ve all seen the cool “Astra for robotics” demos. But behind the scenes? Slow rollouts, hand-engineered APIs, and/or simulated behaviors that struggle on real robots. How do we make coding agent actually work in the physical world? 🦾 Introducing SimEX: Simulation-Integrated Robotics AutoResearch 🧵

Jiaheng Hu

@JiahengHu1

Final year Ph.D. candidate @UTAustin | Ex: @Amazon FAR, @GoogleDeepMind, @allen_ai, @CarnegieMellon, @Columbia

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Jiaheng Hu@JiahengHu1

2026.10.06 14:59

We’ve all seen the cool “Astra for robotics” demos. But behind the scenes? Slow rollouts, hand-engineered APIs, and/or simulated behaviors that struggle on real robots. How do we make coding agent actually work in the physical world? 🦾 Introducing SimEX: Simulation-Integrated Robotics AutoResearch 🧵