Lightwheel

Data and Simulation Infrastructure for Physical AI

[Lightwheel @LightwheelAI]

Explore SimReady Central Library: https://t.co/zaHZ7SKnTK

[Lightwheel @LightwheelAI]

Congratulations to @nvidia on launching the SimReady Central Library — the largest open collection of simulation-ready OpenUSD assets, with 3,500+ assets now on @huggingface.

Lightwheel is the largest contributor to the library, delivering SimReady assets available at launch across industrial, residential, and hospital environments.

Our SimReady assets are also built to the highest standard of physical accuracy. Each one carries validated mass and inertia, collision geometry that matches the mesh, and articulation and joint limits that behave as the real object does. Visual fidelity is a starting point. Physical fidelity is what robots need.

We believe open, physics-accurate SimReady assets are foundational infrastructure for Physical AI. That is why Lightwheel contributed at this scale, and why we will continue to, so that more robotics teams, labs, and partners can build on them.

[Lightwheel @LightwheelAI]

Explore Lightwheel’s SimReady assets: https://t.co/u9rZRLB5FL

[Lightwheel @LightwheelAI]

Huge congrats to our partners at @dreamlabs_ai on the launch of Dream-1!

One model. Any two-armed robot. No retraining.

Excited to see this out in the world!

[Dream Labs @dreamlabs_ai]

Today, Dream Labs is coming out of stealth with Dream-1, a robot foundation model that controls bimanual robots it has never seen, on tasks it was never shown, in places it has never been, from $3/hour.

Dream API is live for everyone, today. 🧵

[Lightwheel @LightwheelAI]

Bring your hot takes on: Sim2Real. Policy benchmarks. Physical RSI. Human data. Newton. World models. Humanoids that actually ship!

[Lightwheel @LightwheelAI]

Heading to #GTCBerlin? Come find us after keynote day.

@LightwheelAI and @NVIDIARobotics are hosting the RoboFinals Party. Keynote day ends, the real conversations start. The people who build the models, run the simulators, and write the checks, one room, open bar.

📅 Oct 21 | 6–11 PM
📍 Berlin Mitte, 15 min from Tempodrom and STATION-Berlin
🍸 Open bar, curated food and drinks

🎟️ Space is limited and attendance is by approval. Request your spot: https://t.co/Of0AXnm94c

#GTCBerlin #PhysicalAI #Robotics #RoboFinals #NVIDIA

[Lightwheel @LightwheelAI]

Congratulations to the @naturewill team on the release of Natura-1!

Natura-1 is a 50B-parameter MoE foundation model for the physical world, pretrained on one million hours of egocentric human experience.

At Lightwheel, we’re proud to support Natura-1 through EgoSuite, providing high-quality human data at scale. Our data spans real-world tasks in homes, retail stores, hospitals, and factories, with precise bimanual hand-pose annotations and footage from wrist-mounted cameras.

Real-world human experience, captured in detail and delivered at scale.

#NatureWill #Natura1 #PhysicalAI #EgoSuite #HumanData

[Lightwheel @LightwheelAI]

IROS 2026 is a wrap!

After a week of conversations, demos, and discussions across the robotics community, three trends stood out to us.

Here are our three main takeaways from the conference:

1. Dexterous manipulation and AI is maturing. We saw many different hand embodiments and tactile sensing displays at various booths. We saw this trend playing out earlier this year and have partnered with Analog Devices to help pave the future of dexterous AI.

2. Deployment is everything! We saw a lot of interesting robots, but the main question is: who has deployed them? This is why we had Vega from Dexmate making hats in our booth. We partnered with Dexmate and Paritas AI to deploy Vega in hospitals, solving labor gaps in surgical tool kitting.

3. Simulation is back! Well, it never went away. But interest was high around our RoboFinals eval solution and Newton-native simulation assets. As Physical AI scales, so will the need for quality evals.

Didn't get a chance to stop by our booth or attend our party?

Visit us at CoRL next month!

#PhysicalAI #IROS2026

[Lightwheel @LightwheelAI]

We’d love your vote! 🗳️

Lightwheel has been named a finalist for Best Use of AI in the 2026 Humanoid Robotics Industry Awards.

We’re proud to be recognized alongside so many companies pushing humanoid robotics forward.

If you’ve followed our work across Physical AI, simulation, and robot learning, we’d appreciate your support.

👉 Vote for Lightwheel here:
https://t.co/T897ENGsg6

Voting is open through October 15.

#Robotics #PhysicalAI

[Lightwheel @LightwheelAI]

It has been a busy week at #IROS2026! Today is your last day to stop by our booth to learn about our open sourced 100K hours of egocentric data, our next generation of benchmarking in sim, and even get a custom @LightwheelAI hat made by @DexmateAI's robot!

#Robotics #PhysicalAI

[Lightwheel @LightwheelAI]

After hours, join our joint party with @ADI_News and @DexmateAI.

Sep 29, 6 to 10PM, Pittsburgh. Bring your hardest sim-to-real question.

RSVP: https://t.co/FsVAjdpBDt

[Lightwheel @LightwheelAI]

Lightwheel is heading to #IROS2026. Booth 714, Pittsburgh, Sep 27 to Oct 1.

🔹 Learn: EgoSuite-Open100K, 100K hours data of humans doing diverse and real tasks
🔹 Train: SimFoundry, simulation worlds where robots practice
🔹 Evaluate: RoboFinals, a standard exam for robot policies
🔹 Deploy: RoboStack, from sim to real robot deployment

[Lightwheel @LightwheelAI]

Lightwheel is hiring for 2027.

We build the data and simulation infrastructure for Physical AI. Come help us take it global.

Roles
→ Strategic Product Manager, Early Career (GTM)
→ Strategic Projects Manager (Global Operations)

Who can apply
→ Full-time: graduating Sept 2026 to Aug 2027, in CS, Robotics, Automation, AI, or related fields
→ Internship: current students

📍 SF Bay Area
🔗 https://t.co/y3voemA2KT

#PhysicalAI

[Lightwheel @LightwheelAI]

Sim to real. Summit to party. 🎉

The humanoid robotics world is in Seoul next week, and on Wednesday night it's all in one room. Builders, researchers, and investors, off the conference floor and talking sim2real. 🤖🍻

It caps our day at @HumanoidsSummit, after @bgxc's Opening Keynote and demos at Booth 16-21.

🗓 Sep 23, 5–10 PM
📍 Seoul (venue shared upon RSVP)

Spots are going fast. Apply now 👉 https://t.co/HCNqHfbYNv

[Lightwheel @LightwheelAI]

At Booth 16-21, see how a robot learns:

📊 Learn: 100K hrs of egocentric human data (EgoSuite-Open100K)
🌐 Practice: sim built on real-world physics (SimFoundry)
🏁 Test: sim2real evaluation on Newton (RoboFinals)
🚀 Deploy: field failures feed the next lesson (RoboStack)

[Lightwheel @LightwheelAI]

Lightwheel is at @HumanoidsSummit Seoul, Sep 22–23 at COEX 🇰🇷

Sep 23, 9:00 AM: @bgxc delivers the Opening Keynote, "Building the Continuous Learning Infrastructure for Physical AI."

Booth 16-21: see the full loop, from human data to deployment. Our team is on-site all week

[Lightwheel @LightwheelAI]

@cspaliwa1 @ADI_News @DexmateAI That would be epic!

[Lightwheel @LightwheelAI]

The best conversations at IROS never happen in the sessions. They happen later that night, plate in one hand, with the people who make this field worth being in.

@LightwheelAI x @ADI_News x @DexmateAI are co-hosting a party on September 29, 6-10PM, in Pittsburgh. Good food, a proper bar, four hours off the clock.

Bring your hardest sim-to-real question. We'll handle the rest!

#IROS2026 #Robotics #PhysicalAI #Dexmate #AnalogDevices

[Lightwheel @LightwheelAI]

RSVP: https://t.co/FsVAjdpBDt

[Lightwheel @LightwheelAI]

Learn More:

Project page:
https://t.co/qy1yhwm2te

Blog post:
https://t.co/WSX5uMVIUg

Data on HuggingFace:
https://t.co/hadIDf1pdx

[Lightwheel @LightwheelAI]

We started in simulation. Egocentric data is where that led us.

Our co-founder @bgxc explains on @RoboPapers why scaling sim means scaling real data first, and why egocentric data was the only source that could be standardized.

Watch the full episode with @micoolcho and @DJiafei here: https://t.co/JKmM0hZ5dW

#Robotics #Real2Sim