Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-15
CapraMorph Puts Robot Policies Through Simulation First
A sim-first robot-learning research project that trains and evaluates control policies in MuJoCo before building hardware.
Why it surfacedCapraMorph treats the physical SO-101 desktop arm as the materialisation of whatever survives explicit simulation gates. The project is candid about its starting point—Phase 0, with no learned policies or hardware yet—and promises telemetry, rendered rollouts, and a pass/fail report rather than startup gloss.
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The Two-Tonne Temperature Problem
August 15’s newborn domains include a live-aboard hydrogen airship with a two-tonne lift problem, a Japanese toolbox that explains its assumptions, an advisory-by-advisory Hawaiʻi hurricane archive, and a wedding-gift game about ungrateful poultry.
This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-15 Domain Arrivals issue.