Robot Talk Episode 164: Accelerating Robot Learning with Michelle Lu

Michelle Lu, co-founder and CEO of Vsim Technology, discusses using simulation and artificial intelligence to teach robots new skills on the podcast. She previously served as Director of Simulation Technology at NVIDIA, where she and her co-founder developed Isaac Gym, the first end-to-end GPU-accelerated reinforcement learning framework. In 2022, the two left NVIDIA to found Vsim, aiming to address limitations in efficiency, scalability, and the sim-to-real gap in simulation-based robot AI.