Physically accurate assets and scenes for robot simulation training at scale
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🚀 Introducing Instruct-Particulate, our new model for inferring articulated structures from static 3D meshes, with significantly improved generalization to novel object categories and support for kinematic prompting.
To achieve this, we scaled our training data 40× and redesigned the model to follow kinematic prompts.
The result: diverse, realistic, simulator-compatible articulated 3D assets can now be generated directly from real-world images!
🔗 Project page: instruct-particulate.github.…
🤗 Demo: huggingface.co/spaces/rayli/…
Palatial retweeted
both palatial and rigyd fixed their apps. Palatial left, rigyd right. Palatial got the textures mostly right.
wireframes+collision meshes in thread
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Agent-powered simulation generation.
Soft bodies, powered in Newton (soon integrated into Isaac sim).
Articulated open ended objects, with an interface to improve the outputs.
We are expanding to more input modalities next - think chat for physical AI.
Join us if you want to solve some of the hardest problems in simulations!
The only way to scale robotics is to scale simulation. And sim is bottlenecked by high quality assets.
Today we're releasing Palatial V1.0, the first automated pipeline to generate Sim-Ready assets at scale.
Agent-guided and multimodal, it supports soft-body, articulation, and is the first and only automated asset generator for Nvidia's Newton simulator. @NVIDIARobotics
Start generating: dashboard.palatial.cloud
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the data problem for physical AI isn't volume, it's modality. tactile, contact-rich data doesn't exist at scale. cool to see @PalatialSim and @stevenRSim building the pipeline to generate the missing input layer for embodied intelligence
A child consumes more data in 1 month than any LLM has ever seen. Embodied agents learn by doing, but the data that teaches them is tactile, sensorial and causal.
Such data does not exist.
To make physical AGI possible, we need to generate this new data at an industrial scale.
Enter Palatial: automated infrastructure that converts raw data into sensory rich playgrounds for robots to learn in.
Today, we’re unveiling Palatial PhysReady, the first automated sim asset generator (try it ⬇️) [1/5]
Palatial retweeted
very few things matter in robotics
this is one of them
looking forward to overwhelming the team with API calls
A child consumes more data in 1 month than any LLM has ever seen. Embodied agents learn by doing, but the data that teaches them is tactile, sensorial and causal.
Such data does not exist.
To make physical AGI possible, we need to generate this new data at an industrial scale.
Enter Palatial: automated infrastructure that converts raw data into sensory rich playgrounds for robots to learn in.
Today, we’re unveiling Palatial PhysReady, the first automated sim asset generator (try it ⬇️) [1/5]
Palatial retweeted
tune in at 9am PST to see what the @PalatialSim team has been cooking up!
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First time trying VR teleoperation in Isaac Lab on an articulated object generated using @PalatialSim
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genie is to robotics what opus is to agents. so close to the alphafold moment for robotics. sim-to-real had been waiting for this all along.
> genie computes environments
> transform frames into gaussian splats (nvidia's longsplats)
> splats collapse into low-poly
> low poly gets an ultra-realistic touch up with shaders and textures
> the whole thing gets dropped in isaac lab where autonomous machinery can learn to navigate complex world at compute cost
generate > reconstruct > realisticize > simulate > train
just five steps between "genie imagine a warehouse" to "robots know how to move through warehouses"
@demishassabis, please open source this (or a lite version). the full robotics community is just a few miles away from infinite training envs.
cc @OfficialLoganK @sundarpichai
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Tech Weekend December 2025 Recap: A 48 hours fundraising sprint.
Over the weekend we welcomed 165 technical founders from across the U.S. and around the world — building across AI, deep tech, climate, robotics, fintech, life sciences, space, bio convergence, health tech, industrial automation, & other frontier sectors.
We were also joined by over dozens of investors across VC Panels, VC Office Hours, Juding the Pitch Competitions, & the Mixers.
Several founders who have attended Tech Weekend in the past two years told us that “this was the best Tech Weekend so far.”
We agree — not because it was perfect, but because we pushed hard to make the experience more structured, more efficient, & more meaningful for founders & investors and it worked.
Congratulations to our Pitch Competition winners:
AI Pitch Competition:
☑️ Retention Intelligence, Founder: Bobby Cooper
☑️ Odyssea AI, Founder Ivan Tan
Deep Tech Pitch Competition Winners
☑️ BioTwin, Founder Kit Chong
☑️ @PalatialSim , Founder Steven Ren.
A sincere thanks to the investors who joined us at Tech Weekend.
• Henry Pham, Managing Partner, @octantventures
• @j2ulie , Managing Partner, Urban Innovation Fund
• Murilo Johas Menezes, Managing Partner, Positive Ventures
• Snehal Shinde, General Partner & Co-Founder, Twin Ventures
• Sena Zorlu, General Partner, Ant Venture Partners
• Marco DeMiroz, General Partner, The Venture Reality Fund (VRF)
• Arkady Kulik, General Partner, RPV
• Venktesh Shukla, General Partner, Monta Vista Capital
• Nish Bhat, General Partner, Carbon Silicon Ventures
• Sheela Ursal, General Partner, Fintech Next
• Natarajan Subbiah, General Partner, Operator-Stack
• Chima Osuka, Senior Partner, Suncoast Venture
• Abiodun Adisa, President, Oridun Capital Management
• Gray Robinson, Partner, Congruent Ventures
• Noor Kamruddin, Partner, Clear Ventures
• Godfrey Powell, Jr Powell, Partner, Outer Heaven Ventures
• Uly Su, Partner, Addin Ventures
•Gary Pesola, Investor at Adverb VC
• Arif Damji, Partner, Conductive Ventures
• Ryan Mendoza, Partner, Scrum Ventures
• Nikita Gaurav, Partner, Necessary Ventures
• Keshia Theobald-van Gent, Partner at BDev Ventures
• Brij Singh, Venture Partner, Rebright Partners
• Ryan D. Taylor, Emerging Fund Manager, Stealth Fund
• Frederick (Freddy) Dopfel, Principal, LG Technology Ventures
• Riddhi Daftary, Principal, Celesta Capital
• Benny Liao, Principal, Acorn Pacific Ventures
• Michael Loginoff, Investment Manager, Invest New Zealand
• Theresa Dai, Sr.Associate, Foothill Ventures
• Claire Owens, Associate, Telescope Partners
• Nicole Seah, Associate, Costanoa Ventures
• Heather Rebuelta, Angel Investor, Conscendo Ventures
• Camila Franco, Venture Scout, Mighty Capital
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Palatial retweeted
Announcing the 2025 Robotics and Physical AI Awards winners:
Data Engines and Simulation
1st Buildroid
2nd @parallel_domain
3rd @PalatialSim and @dualityai
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Coming Up at Tech Weekend: Deep Tech Pitch Competition — Dec 5, 2025
We’re excited to announce the finalists for the Deep Tech Pitch Competition, featuring breakthrough innovations across nuclear systems, simulation engines, embodied AI, advanced materials, distributed clinical infrastructure, and circular-economy technologies.
⚡ Finalists
The Earthineering Company — Advanced Nuclear Systems
Founder: Kevin Hickerson
Developing next-generation nuclear technologies that extend the use of nuclear energy far beyond electricity generation, unlocking industrial heat, materials processing, and high-density energy applications. Angel; $230K raised.
SYMULAT — Scientific Computing Acceleration
Founder: Sergey Knysh
Building scientific computing technology capable of achieving million-fold speedups within five years, redefining numerical simulation for physics, engineering, and computational research. Pre-seed; $200K raised.
@PalatialSim Simulation for Robotics & Embodied AI
Founder: Steven Ren
A high-throughput simulation platform generating billions of scenarios for generalist robots. Used to calibrate sim-to-real gaps and power automated data engines for teams like Amazon and Genesis AI. Pre-seed; $2M + equity.
@GpuAudio — Multi-Zone GPU-Powered Audio Systems
Founder: Alexander Talashov
Built the world’s first multi-zone car audio system powered by a vehicle’s GPU, creating personalized audio zones without headphones. Includes a custom Cybertruck demo vehicle. Series A; $12M seed raised.
BioTwin— Carbon-Negative Material Systems
Founder: Kit Chong
Replacing steel studs in partition walls with hemp-based structural components, reducing embodied carbon by 71.5% while improving acoustic and thermal performance. Seed; $330K equity + $530K grants.
@mary_technology Inc. — Distributed Diagnostic Infrastructure
Founder: Felix D. Davis
Building Patient Access Terminals (PATs) and MaryOS, a full-stack clinical operating system supporting vitals capture, edge-AI diagnostics, and continuous monitoring in low-resource environments—even without internet or electricity. Early revenue; $695K raised.
@EveGrocer — Circular-Economy Infrastructure
Founder: Ma. Leonelle De leon
Deep-tech infrastructure unifying reverse logistics, blockchain fintech, and modular food-waste-to-bioenergy systems with carbon capture, enabling resilient circular networks for cities. Pre–Series A.
🧑⚖️ Judges & Technical Experts
Nikita Gaurav – Partner, @NecessaryVC
Investment Focus: Climate Tech, Health Tech, Deep Tech
Ryan D. Taylor – Emerging Fund Manager, Stealth Fund
Investment Focus: Heavy Industry
Mozhgan Bahrami, Ph.D, PMP Bahrami – Consultant & Net Zero Project Lead, SDS Group NY
Expertise: Climate Tech
If you're excited about the future of energy, materials, robotics, and advanced systems — this is the room to be in.
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Palatial retweeted
Last month, we hosted a robotics hackathon in NYC
Using 3D printed arms that cost less than $100, people made laundry folders, chess hustlers, guitar players, etc.
All with the idea that to create a fully autonomous utopia, you have to do something silly with robots first 👇
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WE WON THE GRAND PRIZE AT THE BIGGEST ROBOTICS HACKATHON IN NYCCCCCC!!!! YAAAAAY :))
We built a 2500 ELO chess robot that trash talks while it destroys you 😭😭
@snbafana @carrawu @marco_schonert @AlexBoniske
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On Saturday morning I met some cracked student engineers on the sidewalk and offered them a place to crash in NYC. 24 hrs later, we won the biggest robot arm hackathon ever.
Meet Raju: an autonomous chess-playing robot (ELO >2500) inspired by GM Gukesh Dommaraju, who earned his title at age 12. Like Gukesh, Raju is poised for greatness at a young age, having just learned to move pieces yesterday.
@snbafana @marco_schonert @AlexBoniske @TalhaKhan_TK_
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did we just… largest arm hackathon?!
We just got 20 more robot arms thanks to @innate_bot, putting us at 52 robots.
This officially makes this the largest robot hackathon ever.
Sorry @sincethestudy.
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Congratulations to new #CesiumCertified Developer @palatialXR!
The Cesium Certified Developer Program recognizes the technical expertise of developers who build on the Cesium platform. It's free + open to all.
Learn more and join us: bit.ly/3UsK5tR
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Create photorealistic context of any location in the world!
Here, Palatial combines Google Map tiles + @GeopipeInc 's digital twin of NYC to simulate stunning views at different times of day around an upcoming project.
Plus- it works in any browser!📱
#digitaltwin #simulation