Research

Research driven by
real-world deployment

Robgence operates at the intersection of robotics research and large-scale data operations. All our initiatives revolve around the core challenges of Physical AI, like perception, manipulation, teleoperation, world models, and sim-to-real transfer. Every research project is based on the data collected from real-world environments.

/ Multimodal Perception

Perception under partial observability

Developing perception systems that integrate RGB-D, audio, motion, tactile, and proprioceptive signals to enhance reliability in dynamic, partially observable environments.

/ Embodied Learning

Learning from human demonstrations

Exploring imitation learning, teleoperation, and human demonstration datasets for training embodied AI systems to perform complex tasks in the real world.

/ Sim-to-Real Transfer

Closing the reality gap

Building pipelines which utilize synthetic data, digital twins, and high-fidelity real-world datasets to reduce the reality gap.

/ Vision-Language-Action Models

Foundation models for embodied intelligence

Investigating large-scale egocentric and multimodal datasets that power VLA models, and next-generation robotics foundation models.

Our Vision

We’re not just building data infrastructure. We’re building toward embodied intelligence.

Robgence began by solving one of the most fundamental challenges in Physical AI: access to high-quality real-world data. However, data collection is only the beginning.

Every environment we capture, every interaction we record, and every dataset we deliver contributes to a larger mission. Our research extends beyond data infrastructure into the core challenges that will define the next generation of embodied intelligence — humanoid robotics, world models, manipulation learning, and autonomous decision-making.

By combining large-scale data operations with applied robotics research, we’re helping build the foundations for systems that can understand, adapt to, and operate within the physical world with greater capability and autonomy.

Robgence research — embodied AI in the real world

The Frontiers We’re Building Toward

4Research Domains
Real-World Scale
Selected Publications

Recent Work

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/ 01ICRA · 2026

Tactile-conditioned policies for unstructured manipulation

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/ 02CoRL · 2025

Distribution-aware data scaling for Physical AI

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/ 03RSS · 2025

Operator-in-the-loop imitation learning from active manufacturing facilities

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/ 04NeurIPS Workshop · 2024

Synthetic + real curriculum for multi-finger grasping

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