When you read the fine print you find out that’s for a 2D simulation of a robot arm that isn’t moving. Real world results from coworkers showed it being about 10x slower than Drake in meaningful sims.
Some cold water on the claims here: <a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/stoneztao/p/the-new-hyped-genesis-simulator-is" rel="nofollow">https://open.substack.com/pub/stoneztao/p/the-new-hyped-gene...</a><p>tl;dr: The way they're able to claim a massive speedup is by simulating much simpler scenarios than those being simulated by other systems.
I believe this is how some robot vacuum companies perfected their algorithms 10-15 years ago; basically simulating inputs to the software from LIDAR/bump sensors and figuring out how to avoid getting the robot "stuck" in your living room.
There are self driving car companies doing the same kind of training. I know because I spoke to an employee who works at a startup that provides this type of software as a service.
OT, but that's the second time this month I'm encountering TLS issues with <i>arstechnica.com</i>... seems to be some mixup with the domains for <i>intuit.com</i>.
Kinda nitpicking, but why is "SIM" allcaps here but not on the source article? It's a "sim" (short for "simulator"), not a SIM card for a cellular phone :'D