Simulation passes but real-world regressions
The team saw repeated policy regressions when moving from simulation to hardware due to contact variation and reset drift.
Real-World RL Environment for Faster Policy Iteration
A robotics team moved from simulation-heavy testing to persistent real-world environments and improved benchmark reliability.
- Persistent environment cellRepeatable reset logic and stable sensor synchronization.
- Failure replay dashboardFast triage of regression clusters and scenario-level tracking.
- Policy gate checksBenchmark gating before every promotion.
- Benchmark pass rate: 58% -> 84%
- Regression incidents per release: down 47%
- Release confidence score: up 31%