Hi everyone, Our next robotics seminar speaker is Prof. Abhishek Gupta, Assistant Professor at the University of Washington. Speaker: Abhishek Gupta Date: 03/06/2026 Time: 11:00 AM EST Location: CS 105 We are looking forward to seeing you there! Please stay tuned for more details. Title: [ https://robotics.princeton.edu/seminars | Simulation-driven Robot Learning for the Lazy Researcher ] Abstract: This talk will delve into the workflow of building robot learning methods powered by large-scale physics simulation. While the promise of simulation is low-effort data generation that scales cheaply with human effort, the reality is often not as simple, with considerable human effort required to actually make simulation a useful tool for real-world robotic manipulation. In this talk, I will study how to develop methods that explicitly reduce manual human effort in enabling simulation as a data generation tool - from environment and behavior generation, to enabling downstream transfer to the real-world. In doing so, I will outline an effort-efficient path to leveraging simulation as a data source for robot learning - hopefully to make robotics easier for lazy researchers like me! Best Regards, Robotics Seminar Committee