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<span class="title-desc">Physics-Aligned Simulator as Zero-Shot Data Scaler in Deformable Worlds</span>
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<h2 class="section-title">SIM1: The Same One as Reality</h2>
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<p>"What I cannot create, I do not understand."</p>
<cite>Richard Feynman</cite>
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Robotics is advancing at astonishing speed. Machines now sort parcels at warehouse tempo, weld with micron-level precision, and assist in surgery with superhuman steadiness. Yet give that same robot a wrinkled shirt and ask it to fold, and the illusion breaks. Cloth is not just another object category. It is a moving state space. Every grasp reshapes the surface. Every pull rewrites the geometry. Every contact changes what happens next. Compared with rigid manipulation, deformable tasks demand vastly broader coverage of states, recoveries, and interaction modes, making them among the most data-hungry problems in all of robotics.
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That is exactly where the field hits a wall. Robot foundation models such as π<sub>0</sub> have already shown the core scaling law: more demonstrations unlock more capability. But cloth needs <em>far more</em> data than pick-and-place or rigid assembly, because success depends on seeing not one canonical pose, but thousands of messy, partially folded, self-occluded, failure-prone configurations. Collecting that data in the real world is brutally expensive: expert operators, costly hardware, and roughly 100 trajectories per day. The moment you ask for the volume required for robust generalization, the economics collapse.
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In principle, simulation should be the escape hatch. Run forever, scale cheaply, generate trajectories by the million. And indeed, simulation-driven data generation has shown promise for rigid-object manipulation. But cloth has remained the exception. Prior attempts break on exactly the dimensions that matter most for deformables: geometry that drifts from reality, contact and friction that destabilize long-horizon behavior, and robot motions that no longer resemble the structure of human demonstrations. The result is a frustrating compromise the community has learned to live with: <em>use simulation to help, but trust real data when it counts.</em>
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One simulation, spanning multiple tasks and scenes: these 20× replays summarize <strong>45 hours</strong> of generated trajectories from <strong>SIM1</strong>, with physically credible cloth dynamics at scale.
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<strong>SIM1</strong> begins by rejecting that compromise. Our premise is not that synthetic data should be cheaper; it is that synthetic data must become <em>faithful</em>. When the simulator is geometrically precise, dynamically stable, and behaviorally aligned with real demonstrations, simulation stops being a rough pre-training proxy and becomes a real source of supervision. That is the idea behind SIM1: close the loop between human demonstrations and high-fidelity cloth simulation tightly enough that generated trajectories can serve as a direct, zero-shot substitute for real-world data.
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From just 200 human demonstrations, SIM1 produces over 10,000 synthetic trajectories at <strong>27× lower cost</strong> and <strong>6.8× higher throughput</strong>. Policies trained entirely on this synthetic data achieve <strong>90% zero-shot success</strong> on real robots — and outperform real-data baselines by over <strong>50%</strong> when the environment changes. For cloth manipulation, this is the turning point: simulation is no longer a warm-up. It is the engine.
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The gap between simulation and reality isn't one problem — it's three. The scene <em>looks</em> wrong. The physics <em>feel</em> wrong. The motions <em>act</em> wrong. SIM1 closes all three with a unified real-to-sim-to-real pipeline.
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First, we make the virtual world <em>look</em> like the real one. Real garments are laser-scanned at sub-millimeter resolution, producing digital twins so precise they preserve individual wrinkles and texture weave. The robot, the table, the lighting — everything is reconstructed or imported at true-to-life scale. This isn't approximate modeling. It's digital forensics.
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Second, we make the virtual world <em>feel</em> like the real one. Our custom physics solver ensures that when a simulated robot pulls cloth, the fabric drapes, stretches, and resists exactly as it would on a physical table. We calibrate by running identical motions on the real and simulated robot simultaneously, then tuning parameters until the two are visually indistinguishable.
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Third, we make the virtual robot <em>act</em> like a real one. Rather than scripting rigid pick-and-place sequences, we teach a diffusion model to generate fluid, human-like trajectories. A learned quality filter discards the rare implausible motion, and visual randomization — different materials, lighting, camera angles — ensures that trained policies can't memorize appearances. The result is a data engine that converts a weekend of human demonstration into months of diverse, photorealistic training data.
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The pipeline begins with real garments and teleoperated demonstrations, reconstructs them into a high-fidelity simulation, generates large-scale synthetic trajectories with aligned physics and behavior, and finally trains policies that transfer <strong>zero-shot</strong> back to physical robots.
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Pull a real shirt from one corner, and the entire fabric responds instantly — ripples propagate, folds cascade, the cloth moves as one connected surface. Existing physics engines can't reproduce this in real time. Forces travel too slowly through the mesh, particles lag behind the gripper, and the result is a jittery, stretchy mess that looks nothing like real fabric. This is why sim-to-real for cloth has remained a pipe dream.
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<strong>SIM1</strong>'s solver fixes this with an elegant idea: give the cloth a <em>nervous system</em>. Whenever any mesh edge stretches beyond a physical threshold, a corrective spring instantly activates and snaps the fabric back into shape. When one part is pulled, the correction signal races across the entire surface within a single simulation step. The <strong>naive VBD</strong> solver (left) produces chaotic, localized deformation. Our <strong>deformation-stable</strong> solver (right) keeps the mesh coherent and physically plausible. Drag the particles yourself to feel the difference.
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Few, weak global passes—the mesh lags: distant particles respond only after many frames.
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The interactive comparison above shows <em>why</em> the solver matters; the gallery below shows <em>what that fidelity buys us</em>. SIM1 reproduces deformable motion with convincing realism across twisting, fluttering, folding, and impact, while remaining stable under <strong>rigid-deformable contact</strong>. Even during aggressive gripper interaction, the cloth stays coherent and the contact remains <strong>penetration-free</strong>.
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Together, these examples mark the difference between an approximate cloth animation and a solver that can actually support learning. SIM1 does not just make deformables look plausible in isolation; it preserves the contact, stability, and non-penetrating interaction patterns that policies must rely on before they ever touch a real robot.
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From 200 teleoperated demonstrations, we extract the essential <em>vocabulary</em> of manipulation: grasps, lifts, folds, releases. These atomic <strong>interactions</strong> are preserved exactly as the human performed them — they're too delicate to synthesize. The creative work — deciding how to connect one action to the next — is handled by a diffusion model that generates smooth, natural-looking <strong>transitions</strong>. The pipeline assembles these fragments into complete, novel trajectories that have never been performed but are physically valid. Each is rendered with randomized materials, lighting, and camera angles. The left panel shows raw traces from human demonstrations; the right shows one of thousands of synthesized trajectories — the data factory at work.
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In other words, SIM1 does not generate actions that merely look plausible in isolation. It produces trajectories that remain anchored to the same behavioral structure as real demonstrations, while broadening the coverage needed for robust policy learning.
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Under equal budgets, simulation already comes surprisingly close to real-world supervision. In the representative π<sub>0.5</sub> setting, <strong>200</strong> real demonstrations reach <strong>97%</strong> success, while the corresponding simulation-trained policy reaches <strong>87%</strong>, leaving only a <strong>10-point gap</strong>. Once the environment changes, however, the picture flips: in spatial, texture, and lighting shifts, simulation-trained policies consistently hold up better because SIM1 exposes the model to variation that limited real collection cannot cover.
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The strongest sanity check comes from training π<sub>0.5</sub> from scratch. Real data alone collapses to <strong>0%</strong> success, while SIM1's synthetic data alone reaches <strong>76%</strong>. That result is important: it shows the gain is not merely inherited from pretrained priors. It comes from the data distribution itself.
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These curves reveal the core asymmetry between real and synthetic supervision. Real data is stronger in the extreme low-data regime, but synthetic data scales far more effectively: performance keeps rising as more generated trajectories are added, while real-data gains saturate. In the representative in-domain setting, one real demonstration is worth roughly <strong>15 synthetic trajectories</strong> near saturation; under texture generalization, that equivalence tightens to roughly <strong>5 synthetic trajectories</strong> per real sample.
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The top row highlights successful real-robot execution on the benchmark T-shirt task from grasping through folding completion. The bottom row emphasizes generalization: SIM1-trained policies remain effective on out-of-domain garments, including cases with material, size, and geometry configurations not seen during training, where real-data baselines become markedly less reliable.
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We are also building a next-generation deformable simulator based on <strong>IPC</strong>, designed for <strong>high-frame-rate</strong>, high-fidelity cloth and contact simulation. The goal is not just visual realism, but robust, penetration-free interaction under aggressive rigid-deformable contact at speeds practical for large-scale data generation.
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This system is still under active development. We will share quantitative results, videos, and technical details as soon as the simulator is ready.
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<pre><code>@article{sim1_2026,
title = {SIM1: Physics-Aligned Simulator as Zero-Shot Data Scaler in Deformable Worlds},
author = {Yunsong Zhou and Hangxu Liu and Xuekun Jiang and Xing Shen and Xingyi Liu and Yuanzhen Zhou and Hui Wang and Baole Fang and Yang Tian and Zihan Zhang and Ziqi Fan and Mulin Yu and Qiaojun Yu and Li Ma and Hengjie Li and Hanqing Wang and Jia Zeng and Jiangmiao Pang},
year = {2026},
note = {https://internrobotics.github.io/sim1.github.io/},
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