Institute for Physical AI @ Bailey Military Institute · The Charlot Lab
Sim to real · embodied policy · physical agency
Technical Report TR-2026-35
Research / Review<br>Preprint v1
12 August 2026

Sim to real · embodied policy · physical agency

Sim to Real: The Road to Physical Agency

What separates a policy that works in simulation from one that works on a body, read in five languages against the Institute's own gaps.

Dean David Jean Charlot, Industrial Research Fellow · The Charlot Lab
The Charlot Lab. Evidence base assembled 8 to 12 August 2026.

5 language regions358 graded claims13 gaps adjudicated74 quantities not located
A policy that works in simulation and fails on a body has met one of four walls: the world model is wrong, the action-conditioned transition function is wrong, a sensing channel has degraded rather than failed, or the body itself has drifted. This review asks what the record measures at each wall, and it asks in five languages, because the English-language conversation is not the record. Two evidence bases are used. The first is a six-chapter practitioner session, 179 claims of which 123 grade self-published, since a conference talk is self-published by its speaker whatever the affiliation behind it. The second is a five-region sweep of the Chinese, Japanese, Korean, German and French literatures in their own vocabulary and venues, 179 findings of which 70 grade verified, with 20 load-bearing figures sent to independent skeptics instructed to refute and 4 discarded. The two bases invert: the practitioner record is talk, the non-Anglophone record is standards and peer review. Thirteen gaps in the Institute's own corpus are adjudicated against the global record. One closes, from the safety-standards regime rather than the robotics literature. Two remain open. One was partly a search-vocabulary failure rather than a real absence, which is a correction to this Institute and not to the field. Across the thirteen, the binding constraint is engineering implementation six times, regulatory three, AI algorithms twice, computation efficiency once and workforce once. Joules per embodied task was searched for in five regions and located as a measured quantity in none, while one national standard now requires it as a reportable.

1. Scope, method and grading

This review has one question. When a policy that works in simulation is put on a body and fails, what exactly failed, and does anyone measure it. Practitioners in the session that opens this review name four walls, and they are used here as the organising axis. Wall 1 is physical world modelling: the geometry, the materials and the contact are wrong, so the policy is solving a different problem from the one in front of it. Wall 2 is the action-conditioned transition function: predicting the next state from the current state is tractable, and conditioning that prediction on the action is the rung that separates a spectator model from an agent. Wall 3 is policy robustness when a sensing channel degrades rather than fails. Wall 4 is embodiment drift, the state-action-to-force map changing as actuators take on dust, corrosion and wear. The four fail differently, they are measured differently, and a result that closes one says nothing about the others.

Two evidence bases are used and they are kept apart throughout. The first is a six-chapter practitioner session, from which 179 claims were extracted with their quantities. Of those, 123 grade self-published. That is not a criticism of the speakers. Under the Institute rule a conference talk is self-published by the party giving it, and six Stanford and Y Combinator affiliations do not change the grade. Any reader who takes the practitioner base as evidence of the field's state should hold that ratio in view.

The second base is a sweep of five non-Anglophone literatures, conducted in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, German and French, searching native terms in native venues rather than English translations. It returned 179 findings, 127 terms of art flagged as not translating onto the English phrase, and 74 records of quantities searched for and not located. Twenty load-bearing figures were sent to independent readers instructed to refute them, with instruction to default to refuted unless they could open the source and see the value themselves. Four did not survive and are excluded from every count in this review.

The two bases invert on grade, and the inversion is itself a finding. The practitioner base is 69 percent self-published. The non-Anglophone base is 70 verified against 54 reported, 38 self-published and 16 modelled. The non-English record is more heavily standards, certification and peer review, and less heavily conference stage. A survey that reads only English is not sampling the same population.

Four grades are used and every figure carries one. Verified means the primary document was retrieved and the number read from it. Reported means a named source states it and this review did not confirm it against the primary. Self-published means the claimant and the source are the same party, including that party's own forward-looking targets, whatever outlet relayed them. Modelled means arithmetic performed here on sourced inputs, which is never presented as a measurement.

One convention governs every absence in this document. Where it says a quantity was not located, that means these sweeps searched for it and did not find it, and the search is named. It does not mean the quantity is unpublished. Of the 74 not-located records, 28 failed on access rather than on absence, 11 of those on documents that are sold rather than posted. Treating an access failure as evidence about the world would be the same error this review exists to correct.

Evidence baseClaimsVerifiedSelf-publishedWhat it is good for
Practitioner session, 6 chapters17922123Naming the open problems and the vocabulary practitioners use
Five-region sweep1797038Quantities, protocols and statutory instruments
Adversarial verification20 checked16 survived4 refutedRemoving figures that do not survive their own source

Table 1. The two evidence bases, kept apart because they grade differently. The practitioner base names problems; the five-region base measures them.

2. Four walls, and where the Institute stands against each

The four walls are not equally attended to, in the field or in this Institute. Across the six chapters, wall 1 and wall 4 draw five named open problems each, wall 3 draws three and wall 2 draws two. Across the Institute's own 25 relevant holdings the ordering is different again: wall 1 holds ten, wall 4 six, wall 3 five and wall 2 four. Both distributions put wall 2 last, and wall 2 is the one the practitioners describe as the rung that separates a model that watches from a model that acts.

Wall 1 is where the corpus is strongest and where the practitioner record is bluntest. The session states the sim-to-real gap as unsolved and offers no gap metric, no benchmark and no magnitude, which is a statement about the boundary rather than about the difficulty. Deformable objects are named in one clause as strictly worse than the rigid case for both modelling and simulation, with no elaboration. Physics that current simulators do not represent is given by example rather than by class: water, a zipper, cracking open a can.

Wall 2 is stated precisely enough to be tested. Predicting the next state from the current state works; conditioning on the action is described as not working and as demanding far more data. Action-space representation is called an unsolved problem for anyone who wants to learn quickly, which frames it as sample efficiency rather than impossibility. Sections 4 and 5 take those two statements to the five-region record and ask what has been measured against them.

Wall 3 is the one with the cleanest thought experiment and the least evidence. The example given is a person with intact limbs and intact vision who cannot lace a skate with cold hands: the sensing channel is degraded rather than absent, and the policy fails. This review located no robot analogue, dataset or metric for that condition in any of the five regions, having searched for degraded-channel robustness in each. Wall 4, embodiment drift, is named with no wear rate, no time constant and no failure threshold anywhere in the session.

The bar the session sets for physical agency is worth recording because it names a capability rather than a rate: the backpack test, identifying the contents of a bag by feeling inside it, with no vision. That is non-visual world modelling from contact alone, and it sits across walls 1 and 3 at once. No system in this review attempts it. Where a paper needs a single sentence for what separates physical motion from physical agency, that is the sentence.

WallWhat failsOpen problems named in the sessionInstitute holdings
1 Physical world modellingGeometry, materials and contact are wrong510
2 Action-conditioned transitionNext state given the action is wrong24
3 Degraded sensing channelChannel degrades rather than fails; policy fails with it35
4 Embodiment driftThe state-action-to-force map changes with wear56

Table 2. The four walls, with attention counted on both sides. Wall 2 is last in both columns and is the one the session describes as separating a spectator model from an agent.

3. What an English-only search cannot reach

Two absences sit behind the English-language record, and they have different causes and different remedies. The first is material that exists in English, is indexed in English and is freely retrievable, yet carries no weight in the robot-learning conversation because it lives in standards bodies, certification regimes and industrial measurement practice. ISO/TS 15066:2016 Annex A publishes maximum permissible peak pressure at quasi-static contact for 29 body localisations, 130 N/cm² at the forehead centre and 110 N/cm² at the temple 46, and maximum transferable energy per body region from 0.11 J at the face to 2.6 J at the pelvis 49. ISO 9283:1998 has carried drift of pose accuracy and drift of pose repeatability since 1998 64. RoboChallenge publishes a full real-robot grading rule with per-model results, pi0.5 at 43.7%, pi0 at 28.3% and CogACT at 11.7% 17. All of that is English. The cost of this absence is citation practice, and the remedy is reading.

The second absence is material with no English-language existence at all, and it is the finding. A J-STAGE full-text search for Sim-to-Real together with 実機 returns 4,862 results, and 日本ロボット学会誌 alone held 7,006 papers as of 2026-07-31 112. Much of the highest-volume Japanese work appears there as four-page peer-reviewed レター rather than as full papers, fully open access. Inside that format sits バイラテラル制御に基づく模倣学習, in which demonstrations are collected on a leader-follower pair so that human-applied force and environment reaction force land on different robots and can be separated, after which the policy predicts force commands and runs force control. One letter reports per-step success on a six-step hamburger assembly across six initial layouts 86, trained on 48 demonstrations, seven for training and one for validation per layout, with a 500 Hz control loop decimated 20:1 to 25 Hz 87. This review located no English-language name for the branch, having searched the robot-learning venues in English.

Contact force in that line is an observer output rather than an instrument reading. CRANE-X7 carries no torque sensor: disturbance torque is computed by 外乱オブザーバ and torque response is estimated by 反力推定オブザーバ, cited to work from 1996 and 1993 88, on a 500 Hz control loop 87. Shortening the four-channel bilateral control period from 2 ms to 1 ms is reported to execute tasks up to 30% faster 91. Adding a physical-consistency loss relating angle to angular velocity moved real-robot success from 82.2% to 94.4% on 15 demonstrations 90. An English query on sensorless force control does not carry the two-observer decomposition, and it returns a different literature.

深層予測学習 is the Waseda school's name for learning an action-conditioned forward model and controlling through it. It predates and sits beside 世界モデル and does not translate as "world model" 111. That bears on this Institute directly. Gap 1 of the thirteen gaps recorded against the corpus states that no holding takes the action-conditioned transition function as its subject, and part of what was recorded there as an absence of work was a failure of search vocabulary rather than an absence in the world. Adjacent Japanese holdings sit in the same untranslated record: stiffness emitted inside a predicted t+20 ms next state, discriminating 15 from 10 Nm/rad on five demonstrations per bottle 92, and a real-to-sim identification loop whose cost curve runs 2,989, 28,762 and 279,927 annealing trials at objective values 0.022276, 0.004156 and 0.000451 94. The gap narrows and does not close.

China's untranslated contribution is regulatory and industrial. YD/T 6770-2026 人工智能 关键基础技术 具身智能基准测试方法 was approved by MIIT in March 2026, entered force on 2026-06-01 and was drafted by CAICT with more than forty organisations, making five metrics reportable, among them 场景扰动衰减率 and 平均任务能耗 21. GB/T 40575-2021, an industrial-robot energy-efficiency instrument, was issued on 2021-10-11 22, so energy entered Chinese standards infrastructure years before the embodied benchmark reached it. 数采 names an occupation and an industry segment rather than an activity: rigs above ¥200,000 and roughly ¥300 per collector-day against about 500 trajectories per collector-day 28, which prices labour at ¥60 to ¥150 per hour of demonstration data against a ¥500 to ¥1,000 per hour market price 29. An English query on data collection returns method papers.

定格出力80W is a statutory line. Machines whose drive motor is rated at 80 W or less are excluded from the industrial-robot provisions of 労働安全衛生規則 第150条の4 106, and the Japanese product market is organised around 「80W規制」. The neighbouring limits are stated in units that do not convert into it: reduced speed at the tool centre point shall not exceed 250 mm/s 107, and JIS B 8445:2016 excludes from its scope any 生活支援ロボット moving faster than 20 km/h 108. A search on collaborative safety in English returns none of this, because a watt rating at the actuator is not a category the English-language conversation holds.

Position on the trajectory for this Institute's own retrieval: 25 degrees of ninety. The binding constraint is workforce, meaning reading capacity in the source language, since nothing here is limited by compute, hardware or algorithm. The threshold quantity that moves it is coverage of the Japanese record: a standing sweep that issues 環境乱択化, ドメインランダマイゼーション and ドメインランダム化 as separate queries, since they return different paper sets, and that reaches the 4,862 J-STAGE records answering Sim-to-Real together with 実機 112 rather than their English-abstract subset. This review did not locate a measurement of what fraction of those 4,862 records is retrievable by an English-only query, having searched J-STAGE in Japanese and in English.

Term in its own scriptGlossWhat an English-only search fails to retrieveRegion
深層予測学習deep predictive learningThe Waseda line on learning an action-conditioned forward model and controlling through it; it predates and sits beside 世界モデル, so an English query on world models does not reach it 111Japanese
バイラテラル制御に基づく模倣学習imitation learning based on bilateral controlAn imitation-learning branch published as four-page JRSJ letters, in which the policy predicts force commands; per-step success on a six-step assembly 86 from 48 demonstrations at 500 Hz decimated to 25 Hz 87. No English name for it was locatedJapanese
外乱オブザーバ / 反力推定オブザーバdisturbance observer / reaction force estimation observerThe two-observer decomposition that recovers contact torque from motor current with no torque sensor in the arm 88, on a 500 Hz control loop 87Japanese
定格出力80W / 「80W規制」rated output 80 W / the 80 W regulationThe statutory exemption of drive motors rated at 80 W or less from 労働安全衛生規則 第150条の4 106, the threshold around which the Japanese product market is organisedJapanese
YD/T 6770-2026AI key foundational technologies: embodied intelligence benchmark test methodsThe mandate of 平均任务能耗 and 场景扰动衰减率 as required reportables, in force 2026-06-01, drafted by CAICT with more than forty organisations 21Chinese
数采demonstration-data production, as an occupation and an industry segmentRigs above ¥200,000, roughly ¥300 per collector-day and about 500 trajectories per collector-day 28, pricing labour at ¥60 to ¥150 per hour of data 29Chinese
実機the actual machineThe pole opposed to any model, analytical or learned, older than the reinforcement-learning literature; 4,862 J-STAGE records answer it together with Sim-to-Real 112Japanese
環境乱択化 / ドメインランダマイゼーション / ドメインランダム化three current renderings of domain randomisationDifferent paper sets per rendering, so a sweep issuing only one of them under-counts the corpus that reports the bandsJapanese

Terms whose own script is the only door, and what an English-only search fails to retrieve

4. The action-conditioned transition function, and action representation

EWMBench scores seven embodied world models on one protocol and separates appearance from dynamics. The protocol is stated in the same document: AgiBot-World data, 10 manipulation tasks by 10 ground-truth episodes, 4 to 10 atomic sub-actions per task, 7 models by 3 candidates for 2,100 generated videos, with DINOv2 patch cosine similarity for scene consistency, symmetric Hausdorff distance and normalised dynamic time warping for motion, and Wasserstein distance on velocity and acceleration for dynamic consistency 24. OpenSora scores 0.9210 on scene against the best model's 0.9427, and 0.0474 on dynamics against 0.5363 24. That is an 11.3x gap on dynamics at near parity on appearance. Appearance and action-conditioned dynamics are empirically decoupled, so a benchmark scoring pixels scores the wrong quantity. The competition-scale echo carries a weaker grade: the AGIBOT WORLD CHALLENGE ran 526 teams from 27 countries across three tracks, and its world-model track was won at 0.829 by a team that also ranked first on the motion-following sub-score, self-published because the organiser owns the benchmark and sells the hardware 25.

What the missing holding costs is measurable on real hardware. RoboChallenge's worst difficulty tag of nine is "temporal", 3 tasks at SR 5% and progress score 14, against an all-task mean of SR 22% and score 37 over 30 real tasks on four embodiments at 10 rollouts per task 16. The report's own explanation is that every model tested is single-frame and therefore carries no transition function at all. GemBench Level 4 returns 0.0 ± 0.0 for Hiveformer, 3D Diffuser Actor and RVT-2, 0.1 ± 0.2 for PolarNet and 0.3 ± 0.3 for 3D-LOTUS, while the same methods score 60.3% to 94.3% at Level 1, and only 3D-LOTUS++ reaches 17.4 ± 0.4 76. Every entry there is a policy holding. All of it reads against a measured run-to-run variance of 0% to 100% with task, props and model held constant 15, which is larger than most of the effects being ranked.

Three Japanese letters take the transition itself as subject. 佐藤寛 et al., JRSJ 43(6):603-606 (2025), impose a physical-consistency loss stating that angle is the integral of angular velocity, moving real-robot success from 82.2% to 94.4% on 15 demonstrations for one task and 39 for the other, at 10 rollouts per distance including an untrained 24 cm 90. JRSJ 44(4):433-436 (2026) emits stiffness inside the predicted t+20 ms next state, discriminating 15 from 10 Nm/rad on two 6 cm PET bottles from 5 demonstrations each 92. JRSJ 44(5):524-527 (2026) relabels a hexapod command and recomputes the reward because the physical transition is invariant to the relabelling 109. Part of what reads as absence is search vocabulary: 深層予測学習, deep predictive learning, does not translate as world model 111. This review did not locate a holding stating a transition model's quality and its real-robot task effect under one protocol, having searched the Chinese, Japanese, Korean, German and French literatures in native language and native venues.

Discretisation against continuous action is closed in simulation with a protocol, and this review located no other closure of it. Garcia-Pinel holds backbone and conditioning identical and varies only the head under the stated GemBench protocol: regression with AdaptiveNorm gives L1 83.3 ± 0.7, L2 29.3 ± 1.9, L3 34.5 ± 1.0 and L4 0.0 ± 0.0; classification with AdaptiveNorm gives 90.8, 47.8, 37.9 and 0.0; classification with cross-attention gives 94.3 ± 1.4, 49.9 ± 2.2, 38.1 ± 1.1 and 0.3 ± 0.3 77. Discretisation gains 7.5 points at L1 and 18.5 at L2 against within-condition spreads of ±1.9 and ±0.6, so the ranking survives a spread test at those two levels; at L3 a 3.4-point signal against roughly ±1.5 is marginal, and at L4 nothing is measured. It points opposite to the Chinese working consensus, which prices 256 bins and a 50-step horizon against 3 to 5 Hz autoregressive inference and 0.33 s per timestep on an A100 41.

Chunk horizon is open. Every located source specifies a horizon and none sweeps it against success; this review located no horizon-against-performance curve, having searched the Chinese, Japanese, Korean, German and French literatures in native language and native venues. One Japanese diffusion policy states the horizon fully, observation 2, prediction 16, executed 5, at 50 Hz control 95. The Japanese answer elsewhere is that the question is malformed: a two-rate hierarchy runs 2.5 Hz upper against 50 Hz lower over a 500 Hz control loop 89, and the null arm predicts the next step only, at 25 Hz under zero-order hold while the 500 Hz controller runs 87. Halving the control period from 2 ms to 1 ms bought up to 30% faster task execution 91. SmolVLA prices the execution schedule rather than the horizon: asynchronous inference holds success near 78% while cutting completion from 13.75 s to 9.7 s, and doubles tasks completed in fixed time, 19 against 9 85.

The emitter family has one like-for-like comparison on identical real hardware, and it is confounded. On RoboChallenge's Table30, task-specific finetunes reach SR 43.7% for pi0.5, 28.3% for pi0 and 11.7% for CogACT under one grading rule 17, so flow-matching emitters beat the diffusion-action VLA by 3.73x and 2.42x. Those systems differ in backbone, pretraining corpus and scale, so the comparison ranks models rather than action representations. The only common-interface comparison located must not be ranked: MLP 16.4 ± 15, ACT 45.0 ± 18, Diffusion Policy 52.0 ± 30 and SARNN 50.8 ± 25 over 8 MuJoCo tasks and 5 seeds, where a 7.0-point between-method signal sits against ±18 to ±30 within-method spread 98. Only MLP separates. Energy descent holds one real-hardware number, 71% zero-shot grasp success trained exclusively on simple simulated objects, with no matched diffusion or flow baseline 62.

The compute term is why the binding constraint on action representation is computation efficiency. Against a 20 ms budget at 50 Hz, one configuration of eight clears the deadline on mean and maximum, streaming DDIM/16 with TensorRT at 8.43 and 10.23 ms, against 352.38 and 375.15 ms for DDPM/100 without it 96; the inference-engineering span of 41.8x on means and 36.7x on maxima 97 exceeds any accuracy difference between emitter families here. The transition-function gap sits at roughly 30 degrees of ninety, binding constraint AI algorithms, and moves when a published model reaches dynamic consistency near 0.9 at scene parity, against a benchmark maximum of 0.6197 at scene 0.9436 24. The action-representation gap sits at roughly 38 degrees of ninety, and moves when an emitter clears 20 ms worst case without streaming, or when the control target moves to the 1 kHz a commodity research interface already exposes 54, cutting the budget to 1 ms.

QuantityValueGradeWhat it constrains
EWMBench dynamics at scene parity, OpenSora against EnerVerse_FTScene 0.9210 against 0.9427; dynamic consistency 0.0474 against 0.5363, an 11.3x gapverified 24Whether a world model scored on pixels says anything about action conditioning
RoboChallenge "temporal" tag, 3 tasks, 10 rollouts per taskSR 5%, progress score 14, against an all-task mean of SR 22% and score 37verified 16The measured cost of single-frame policies carrying no transition function
Physical-consistency loss on the transition, real robot82.2% to 94.4%, on 15 and 39 demonstrations, 10 rollouts per distance, untrained 24 cm includedverified 90That a prior on the transition buys real success at small demonstration counts
Stiffness emitted inside the predicted t+20 ms next state15 against 10 Nm/rad discriminated from 5 demonstrations per bottleverified 92Whether an estimated material parameter can condition the transition online
Discretised classification against continuous regression, identical backboneL1 90.8 against 83.3; L2 47.8 against 29.3; within-condition spreads ±1.9 and ±0.6verified 77The head choice, in simulation only; no hardware extension located
Chinese working consensus on discretisation256 bins, 50-step horizon, 3 to 5 Hz autoregressive against 50 Hz required, 0.33 s per timestep on an A100reported 41The opposite conclusion to the row above, stated without an in-document protocol
Emitter families on identical real hardware, Table30pi0.5 SR 43.7%, pi0 28.3%, CogACT 11.7%verified 17Family ranking, confounded by backbone, pretraining corpus and scale
Common-interface policy comparison, 8 MuJoCo tasks, 5 seedsMLP 16.4 ± 15, ACT 45.0 ± 18, Diffusion Policy 52.0 ± 30, SARNN 50.8 ± 25self-published 98Nothing beyond separating MLP; within-method spread exceeds between-method signal
Energy-descent policy on real hardware71% zero-shot grasp success, trained exclusively on simple simulated objectsverified 62The single real-hardware number the third emitter family holds, with no matched baseline
Diffusion inference against a 20 ms budget at 50 Hz1 of 8 configurations clears mean and maximum; streaming DDIM/16 with TensorRT 8.43 / 10.23 msreported 96The deadline that decides the emitter before accuracy does
Inference-engineering span across those eight configurations41.8x on means, 36.7x on maximamodelled 97That engineering, rather than family, dominates the choice in this dataset
Chunk horizon as specified, never sweptObservation 2, prediction 16, executed 5, at 50 Hz controlreported 95The one fully stated horizon located; no horizon-against-success curve was located
Certified Cartesian speed against effective robot mass, chest1500 down to 400 mm/s from 1 to 20 kg, a 3.75x contractionverified 50That the certified action set is state-dependent, which no located representation encodes
Korean national target for world-model contribution to real successAt or above 20 pp, against a stated global best of 14.5 ppself-published 12Nothing yet: no protocol, N or task list is attached to either number
Run-to-run variance with task, props and model held constant0% to 100%verified 15Every ranking above

Quantities bearing on the action-conditioned transition function and on action representation, with grade and the design decision each one constrains.

5. The sim-to-real tax as a stateable quantity, and drift on the envelope against drift on the task

Four bands of appearance randomisation, priced in real success on a UR5 over seven tasks by twenty episodes: two-dimensional image augmentation alone scores 0/20 on every task; adding 1,203 ambientCG textures on robot, table, wall and floor gives 11.3/20, or 56.5%; adding lighting and object colour gives 14.0/20, or 70.0%; adding camera parameters gives 18.6/20, or 93.0% 71. The bands are published with the ladder, including the 1,203 texture assets and a light-source distance between 1.0 and 3.0 m from the workspace centre 72. Nothing in the ladder randomises mass, friction, latency or any actuator term. Against 98.34% for the same policy family over 250 simulation episodes per task, the tax is 5.34 percentage points 74. That figure carries its own caution. Twenty real trials per task resolves to 5 pp per task, the same size as the tax being reported.

The Korean band sweep runs three bands at 10,000 episodes each and reports simulation-converged grasp success: DR1 at 97% or better within about 1,000 steps, DR2 at about 94% stable after about 3,000 steps, DR3 at 86 to 89% after 10,000 steps, with early-training variance of about 0.18 2. The real endpoint on a UR16e is a single figure, 77.3% rising to 91.7% over 65 trials 1. Differencing the two sides gives 8.7 to 11.7 pp against the hardest band and 19.7 pp against the easiest 3, which is the conservation shape: wider bands, smaller drop, paid for in simulated performance. This review reads the pair as refuted on the quantity. Both endpoints are real-world figures on the same robot, policy pool and simulator, differing only in the ranking rule, and the three tiers vary object spacing and obstacle count rather than randomisation width 2.

One German design runs a single evaluation protocol in simulation and on a KUKA LBR iiwa over 50 identical target poses, with the band-setting rule stated: latency in 0 to 1 s, joint stiffness and damping each in 1,65, observation noise in 0 to 10%, each band widened until an agent trained in an ideal simulator degraded by more than 10% 59. Best-model mean reward without randomisation runs -72.03 in simulation to -142.50 on hardware, and with full randomisation -96.01 to -109.10 60. Modelled from those four numbers, the reality gap is 97.8% without randomisation and 13.6% with it, and the price paid in simulation is 33.3% 61. The trade then inverts with operating point. At pi/9 rad/s the same design gives -79.05 to -129.10 without randomisation and -158.69 to -197.22 with it 60. Full randomisation loses 101% in simulation and lands worse on hardware than no randomisation at all 61.

The widest bands in the record ship with no performance accounting this review located. One vendor configuration sets friction_range to 0.1 to 1.25 against a base default of 0.5 to 1.25, added_mass_range to -1.0 to +3.0 kg against base -1 to +1, push_interval_s to 5 against base 15, with observation noise scales of 0.01 on joint position and 1.5 on joint velocity 14. Where five axes are swept together rather than laddered, the paired real number is 9.0% rising to 42.0% zero-shot in cluttered scenes with unseen backgrounds 26. A cable-driven soft manipulator with a 648 mm backbone transfers zero-shot at 43.5 mm mean absolute error, 6.71% of length, against millimetre-order accuracy inside simulation 79. Gap 3 stands at roughly 40 degrees of ninety, and the binding constraint is engineering implementation. The threshold quantity is a third joint-speed point in the German design; while -197.22 and -129.10 straddle -109.10 and -142.50, no conservation statement can be made.

Drift has been a certified quantity at exactly one corner of the envelope since 1998. ISO 9283:1998 carries drift of pose accuracy and drift of pose repeatability, and in its Tables 1 and 2 the drift test is the only characteristic specified solely at 100% rated load and 100% rated velocity, with no optional second operating condition, where every other characteristic has one 64. The rest of the envelope side is dense and equally silent on tasks. One research arm's datasheet states a safe Cartesian position accuracy worst case at stop of 50 mm against a point repeatability better than plus or minus 0.1 mm, a 500:1 ratio in one document on one arm 53. Reglement (UE) 2023/1230 sets permitted drift to zero, learning phase included, and subjects self-evolving safety components to third-party conformity assessment from 20 January 2027 83. Japan defers force, torque and pressure thresholds to individual risk assessment 108. Korea admits analysis-only certification as one of four accepted verification routes 8.

Measurement on the task has one retrievable instance carrying a full protocol. Holding task, robot and policy fixed, moving one nuisance variable, and running 20 trials per cell, the randomisation-trained policy scores 20/20 by default, 20/20 on a textured tablecloth, 19/20 in low light, 16/20 under multicolour light, 18/20 on object colour and 11/20 under camera variation, mean 17.3/20; the real-data-trained policy scores 20/20, 1/20, 17/20, 14/20, 19/20 and 8/20, mean 13.2/20 75. The textured-tablecloth column, 100% against 5%, is the cleanest measurement of drift on the task located in five sweeps. One national standard mandates scene-disturbance decay rate as a required per-task metric 21; this review did not locate a numeric acceptance value or a published per-company score behind it, having searched the issuing ministry's release, the state news relay and CAICT-sourced trade press. Gap 7 stands at roughly 35 degrees of ninety, binding constraint regulatory.

Gap 6, a reference implementation of a drift protocol, stands at roughly 15 degrees of ninety, and the binding constraint is engineering implementation. Five regional sweeps did not locate one, having searched in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, German and French against native venues. What blocks it is a variance term rather than a missing instrument. With the same props, the same task and the same model held fixed, a measured real success rate can move from 0% to 100% or the reverse, depending on which class of human resets the scene 15. The published fix superimposes a reference frame from a held-out episode on the live camera preview, and this review did not locate a residual spread under it. A published residual of 10 percentage points or better at that benchmark's own 10 rollouts per task 17 would make a drift protocol implementable on an already-published control list 43. Certification on the envelope is not measurement on the task.

randomisation bandmeasured real successregiongrade
2D image augmentation only0/20 on every one of 7 tasks, UR5, 20 episodes per taskFrenchverified 71
plus 1,203 ambientCG textures on robot, table, wall, floor11.3/20, 56.5%Frenchverified 71
plus lighting and object colour14.0/20, 70.0%Frenchverified 71
plus camera parameters18.6/20, 93.0%Frenchverified 71
none (ideal simulator), 1 rad/s joint speedmean reward -142.50, KUKA LBR iiwa, 50 identical target posesGermanverified 60
latency 0 to 1 s, stiffness and damping, observation noise 0 to 10%, 1 rad/smean reward -109.10Germanverified 1,65 60
none (ideal simulator), pi/9 rad/smean reward -129.10Germanverified 60
same three bands, pi/9 rad/smean reward -197.22Germanverified 60
no extensive randomisation, simple simulated objects only71% real grasp successGermanverified 62
none, zero-shot SOFA/Cosserat transfer43.5 mm mean absolute position error, 6.71% of a 648 mm backboneFrenchverified 79
five axes: clutter, lighting, background, tabletop height, language9.0% rising to 42.0% zero-shot, cluttered real scenes, unseen backgroundsChineseverified 26
shipped vendor config: friction_range 0.1 to 1.25, added_mass_range -1.0 to +3.0 kg, push_interval_s 5this review did not locate a real success figure accompanying these bands, having searched the vendor source treeChineseverified 14
DR1, DR2, DR3 tiers (object spacing and obstacle count, not band width)77.3% on a UR16e over 65 trials, one real endpoint for all three tiersKoreanverified 1
same tiers, simulation minus real8.7 to 11.7 pp against the hardest band, 19.7 pp against the easiestKoreanmodelled 3

Randomisation band against measured real success, five regions. Reward-denominated rows are not commensurable with success-rate rows, and only the German study runs one evaluation protocol on both sides.

6. Contact, friction and deformables

ISO/TS 15066:2016 Annex A is a published pressure and energy field with its protocol attached. Table A.2 states maximum permissible peak pressure for 29 localisations, from 110 N/cm² at the temple to 300 N/cm² at the dominant index-finger pad 46, and quasi-static force for twelve regions, from 65 N at the face to 220 N at thigh and knee, with a transient multiplier of 2 everywhere except head and face, where transient contact is not permitted 47. Table A.4 states maximum transferable energy per region, 0.11 J at the face to 2.6 J at the pelvis 49. The protocol travels with the numbers: 100 subjects, pain-onset threshold, third quartile, a 1.4 by 1.4 cm metal stamp with a 2 mm edge radius, pressure averaged at 1 mm² resolution 46. This review located no policy-learning paper in any of the five regions treating the 0.11 J face limit as a constraint on a learned contact policy, having searched all five in the native language.

Gap 11 sits at 78 degrees of ninety, and the binding constraint is regulatory. The phantom is buildable today: DGUV FB HM-080 Tabelle 1 specifies damping material, thickness and spring constant per body region, with the neck at 70 Shore A over 7 mm against 50 N/mm, and the same document reports a measured null, that exchanging the springs moves the force results little 52. What moves the position is the field itself. The forehead pair stands at 130 N and 130 N/cm² 46,47, 6.5x the area pressure of the prior German national recommendation of 90 N at 20 N/cm², with no new physiology in between 66. Regions disagree on one finger: Korean guidance sets the index finger at 520 N/cm² and 500 N 7 against 300 N/cm² and a 140 N hand-and-finger force in the German retrieval 46,47. What closes is the human-biomechanical field alone; this review did not locate a holding whose subject is a differentiable contact model in any of the five sweeps.

The fingertip half is priced and specified in four regions, and its resolution premise fails. Minsight measures 0.07 N mean absolute force error and 0.6 mm contact-location error over 1,740 mm² at 60 Hz; Insight before it gives 0.03 N and 0.4 mm at 11 Hz, and across nine sensors tabulated in the same paper nothing reaches better than 0.4 mm 57. FingerVision runs at 30 to 60 fps at a material cost near USD 50 105; XELA's uSPa 21 resolves about 0.98 mN per axis at 500 Hz 104; Leptrino's six-axis line runs from JPY 107,800 to JPY 1,232,000 at 1.2 kHz 103. Chinese vendors quote DM-Tac W at 40,000 sensing units per cm² for ¥1,299, and PaXini from ¥199 at 0.01 N and 1 kHz 33, an 18.1x spread inside one functional class 34. Korean vendors add a 6 mN tactile sensor 9 and a hand skin detecting 0.01 N at about KRW 30,000 per sensor 10.

The whole-body half is open, and gap 4 sits at 40 degrees of ninety with engineering implementation binding. TUM's H-1 carries 1,260 hexagonal cells and more than 13,000 sensors, with event-driven processing reduction stated as up to 90%, and this review located no price, no per-taxel force resolution and no calibration protocol for it 58. Chinese whole-body coverage runs to 16-channel and 64-channel arrays, 1,000-plus channels at best 35, against 40,000 units per cm² at the fingertip 33, the two halves counted in different units, channels per body region against units per cm², and this review located no interface between them in any of the five sweeps. Certification pulls the other way, requiring at least 1 kHz 51 against tacterion's 120 Hz taroki 56. A third route bypasses the instrument, since CRANE-X7 recovers disturbance torque by observer at a 500 Hz control period with no torque sensor in the arm 88. The threshold is one vendor document in any region stating taxel count, per-taxel force resolution, unit price and calibration protocol together.

Friction is estimated in three regions and always on the wrong side of the contact. Korean work measures viscous friction coefficients of quadruped leg joints online, 0.052 and 0.092 in air against 0.112 and 0.156 in water, with knee-pitch tracking error integral falling from 0.0585 to 0.0197 4,5. Japanese work identifies forward Coulomb 0.11966 Nm and forward viscous 2.10020 Ns by simulated annealing at 10 kHz sampling 94. The Nantes school runs two-stage IDIM-LS over exciting trajectories at 250 Hz 84. All three yield Nm and Ns per joint, never a dimensionless µ. Exactly one surface µ was located in five regions, a swept ratio Ft/FN taken during instrument characterisation with acquisition capped at 2.5 Hz and no identified coefficient 81. The assumption is made in the open: Unitree's shipped G1 configuration carries a uniform friction prior of 0.1 to 1.25 14, and German gripper practice publishes µ = 0.1 with a safety factor of 2 63.

Sensing is not the binding constraint on gap 5. Chinese laboratories report 6 mN normal-force accuracy, 0.21 mm mean shape error on a curved palm and 98.98% slip detection 36; slip is detected as a binary event and never inverted into a coefficient. A Japanese rig measures plantar friction force directly, 830 N maximum normal at the heel and 320 N maximum friction at the big toe for a 90 kg male, reporting newtons rather than a ratio, with the two peaks at different anatomical sites 93. The standards carry no friction term: ISO/TS 15066 Annex A is entirely pressure and force 46,47, and the Japanese limit set carries 250 mm/s and the former 150 N guideline 107. The field's leading real-robot benchmark measures no force at all 18. Gap 5 sits at 30 degrees of ninety, binding constraint engineering implementation, and the threshold is that 0.1 to 1.25 prior replaced by an estimated µ with a stated variance.

Four non-finite-element architectures each carry a retrievable number for gap 12. An implicit neural representation reaches 75% on untangling a twisted rubber band against a prior best of 26% 13. A Cosserat model in SOFA transfers zero-shot to a 648 mm cable-driven prototype at 43.5 mm mean absolute error, 6.71% of length 79. An online scalar stiffness inside a predicted t+20 ms next state discriminates 15 from 10 Nm/rad on two PET bottles from 5 demonstrations each 92. The fourth is the 1-DOF spring certification accepts, 10 to 150 N/mm 48. Capability stays open on the field's own protocol: RoboChallenge's softbody tag sits at 8% success and progress score 27 against a 30-task mean of 22% 16, while the strongest task-specific policy there reaches 43.7% 17. Gap 12 sits at 33 degrees of ninety, binding constraint AI algorithms; the threshold is 90% coverage on 20 unseen deformable classes within 300 s, over 20 repetitions 42.

Body region or sensorQuantityValueGrade
Face (ISO/TS 15066 Table A.4)Maximum transferable energy0.11 Jverified 49
Pelvis (ISO/TS 15066 Table A.4)Maximum transferable energy2.6 Jverified 49
Face (ISO/TS 15066 Table A.2)Quasi-static force limit; transient contact not permitted65 Nverified 47
Index-finger pad (ISO/TS 15066 Table A.2)Peak pressure, dominant / non-dominant300 / 270 N/cm²verified 46
Index finger (Korean collaborative-work guide)Allowable pressure and force, quasi-static520 N/cm², 500 Nverified 7
Abdomen and skull (ISO/TS 15066 Table A.3)Effective spring constant, low and high ends10 N/mm and 150 N/mmverified 48
Neck test body (DGUV FB HM-080 Tabelle 1)Durometer, thickness, spring constant70 Shore A, 7 mm, 50 N/mmverified 52
Contact measurement chain (DGUV FB HM-080)Minimum sampling frequency and filter1 kHz, 100 Hz Butterworthverified 51
Minsight fingertip (Germany)Force error / contact-location error at 60 Hz0.07 N / 0.6 mm over 1,740 mm²verified 57
Insight fingertip (Germany)Force error / contact-location error at 11 Hz0.03 N / 0.4 mm over 4,800 mm²verified 57
FingerVision (Japan)Frame rate and material cost30 to 60 fps, about USD 50verified 105
XELA uSPa 21 (Japan)Force resolution per axis and sampling rate0.98 mN at 500 Hzself-published 104
Leptrino six-axis line (Japan)List price at 1.2 kHz samplingJPY 107,800 to 1,232,000self-published 103
PaXini PX-6AX-GEN3 (China)Force resolution, output rate, entry price0.01 N, 1 kHz, ¥199self-published 33
DM-Tac W (China)Sensing density, output rate, list price40,000 units per cm², 120 Hz, ¥1,299self-published 33
Fingertip tactile class, ChinaPrice spread inside one functional class18.1xmodelled 34
Aidin ATT tactile sensor (Korea)Force resolution at 5.5 mm thickness6 mNself-published 9
Holiday Robotics hand skin (Korea)Detectable force and per-sensor cost0.01 N at about KRW 30,000self-published 10
TUM H-1 whole-body skin (Germany)Cell and sensor count1,260 cells, more than 13,000 sensorsreported 58
tacterion taroki (Germany)Tactile sampling rate120 Hzself-published 56
Chinese electronic skin arraysChannels per body region16 to 64, 1,000-plus at bestreported 35
Human fingertip (French reference set)Minimum detectable pressure and spatial resolutionabout 1 mN, 0.5 mmreported 82
Quadruped leg joints (Korea)Viscous friction coefficient, air then water0.052 / 0.092 then 0.112 / 0.156verified 4
Unitree G1 shipped configuration (China)Ground-friction prior as a uniform band0.1 to 1.25verified 14
German gripper design practiceDesign friction coefficient and safety factorµ = 0.1, factor 2reported 63
Heel and big toe (Japanese plantar rig)Maximum normal / maximum friction force, 90 kg male830 N / 320 Nverified 93
RoboChallenge softbody tag (China)Success rate and progress score, 10 rollouts per task8%, score 27verified 16
Cable-driven soft manipulator (France)Zero-shot mean absolute position error43.5 mm, 6.71% of lengthverified 79
PET bottles, JRSJ 44(4) (Japan)Stiffness discriminated from 5 demonstrations each15 versus 10 Nm/radverified 92

Contact limits, tactile instruments and friction quantities located across the five regional sweeps, each figure with the grade it carries.

7. Teleoperation data, the real-to-sim loop, and system identification

Hours per usable teleoperated demonstration is held at verified grade in none of the five regions swept. The one candidate was discarded on verification: 150 real demonstrations in approximately 4.5 hours on a UR5, or 108 s per demonstration 73, proved to be autonomous scripted-oracle replay of a simulator's action list, the word teleoperation does not occur in that chapter, and 4.5 hours carries one significant figure. What survives at verified grade is demonstration counts with their protocols, and all of it is Japanese: 48 demonstrations over 6 initial layouts by 8 trials for a six-step contact-rich assembly 87; 27 human demonstrations bootstrapped sixfold to 162 by folding successful autonomous rollouts back in 89; and 15 and 39 demonstrations on two tasks, against a stated prior requirement of 404 data points for comparable motion generation 90. Position on gap 8: 40 degrees of ninety. Binding constraint: workforce.

China has an occupational category for the work. 数采 is a named industry segment with the job titles 采集员 and 具身数据师, operating out of 训练场, warehouse-scale facilities running shifts against throughput targets, at least fifteen of them, against national demand estimated at 100,000 to 200,000 hours per year 28. The day rate is ¥300 per collector-day for 2 to 5 hours of usable demonstration data and roughly 500 trajectories at a pass rate above 90%, on rigs above ¥200,000, against a market price of ¥500 to ¥1,000 per hour 28. Labour alone is therefore ¥60 to ¥150 per hour of data and roughly ¥0.67 per usable trajectory 29. Against roughly 500,000 hours held industry-wide and roughly 10,000,000 stated as required, the 20x shortfall costs ¥0.6 to 1.5bn in collector wages alone 30. No definition of usable and no yield protocol accompany any of it.

The threshold on gap 8 is that same collector-day figure at verified grade, with a stated definition of usable and a yield protocol, because every modelled price above moves linearly with it. Korea states the metric pair as a national target rather than a measurement: one hour of continuous collection at 80% success or better, with the binding constraint named as operator labour intensity 11. Two Chinese results pull in opposite directions on the same question. FastUMI removes the robot body, and with it the force channel, cutting single-trajectory collection from about 50 s to about 10 s 31. ForceMimic keeps force in the demonstration and measures it as worth 54.5% over vision-only imitation on contact-rich tasks, applying a mean 7.5 N against the human demonstrator's 6 N 32. This review located no published crossover point between the two routes.

Gap 9 is closed at one-degree-of-freedom actuator scale by exactly one retrievable document, and the Japanese identification cost sweep is what closes it. Shimoichi and Katsura match a simulator's position response to the 実機 by simulated annealing and publish the full cost curve against cooling rate: 0.9 gives 2,989 trials at objective 0.022276, 0.99 gives 28,762 trials at 0.004156, and 0.999 gives 279,927 trials at 0.000451 94. Ninety-four times the compute buys forty-nine times the accuracy. The identified set at the finest setting is forward Coulomb friction 0.11966 Nm, backward 0.07018 Nm, forward viscous 2.10020 Ns, backward 0.58302 Ns and inertia 0.00745 kg·m², sampled at 10 kHz, with residual error concentrated at 0.2 s and 1.2 s and attributed to backlash absent from the model 94. It covers one joint, five parameters, no contact, and it is fourteen years old.

At task scale no located source states a loop fidelity with its protocol. Shanghai AI Laboratory reports navigation rising from 50% zero-shot to 80% with real-to-sim data, and manipulation from 46.7% to 93.3% at a 5:1 simulation-to-real 数据配比, at a forward-looking ¥0.02 per synthesised trajectory against roughly ¥10 per real one 27. ISW Stuttgart runs a closed loop for limp objects with both rates stated, DART physics at 1 ms against a stereo camera at 100 Hz, and this review did not locate an accuracy figure for it 67. ABB claims simulation accuracy of about 99 percent from a virtual controller running identical firmware, with no task, no protocol and no distribution 69. France prices the loop instead: 39 real samples plus simulation hold 8.7 mm, 27 break to 10.1 mm, and 39 real samples alone give 18.3 mm 80. Position on gap 9: 30 degrees of ninety. Binding constraint: engineering implementation. Threshold: a published loop holding accuracy below 27 real samples.

System identification priced in energy was searched for in five regions, in Korean, Chinese, German, French and Japanese, in native terms against native venues, and this review did not locate a single source in any of them that prices it in joules. The lever is priced instead in five mutually incommensurable currencies. Korea prices it in control bandwidth and bytes: a 20 kHz torque loop, a 2 kHz angular-velocity loop and a 12-byte FD-CAN uplink at 4 Mbps, carrying recursive least squares at forgetting factor 0.99 plus a Gopinath observer inside the driver 6. China prices it in seconds and percent: a five-term Fourier excitation trajectory at 0.04 Hz fundamental over 20 periods, 60 s total at 100 Hz sampling, torque prediction error within 5% 23. Japan prices it in optimiser trials 94. France states 250 Hz sampling along excitation trajectories, and this review did not locate a cost figure attached to it 84.

The instrument to price identification in joules sits in Germany, and this review did not locate it pointed at an identification run: 1.0 to 3.0 kWh average consumption by payload class, controller standby of 30 to 140 Wh, and a worked example of 9.95 Wh per cycle at 14.64 s and 2446 W 68. Every one of those attaches to a production cycle. Joules are already the currency of contact safety, from 0.11 J at the face to 2.6 J at the pelvis 49. Cross-region arithmetic gives the shape of the missing experiment rather than a result: 80 W of controller draw 54 across 60 s of excitation 23 is 4.8 kJ, a floor only, since it excludes the motor work the German record shows dominating by roughly thirty times. The denominator sits unused: 3 kWh over more than 6 h implies roughly 500 W mean draw 45. Position on gap 10: 8 degrees of ninety. Binding constraint: regulatory. Threshold: whether 平均任务能耗 in YD/T 6770-2026 charges calibration and identification to the task budget 21.

QuantityValueRegionGrade
Usable demonstration data per collector-day2 to 5 hours, roughly 500 trajectories, pass rate above 90%Chinesereported 28
Collector day rate against data market price¥300 per person-day against ¥500 to ¥1,000 per hourChinesereported 28
Labour cost per hour and per usable trajectory¥60 to ¥150 per hour; roughly ¥0.67 per usable trajectoryChinesemodelled 29
Industry data shortfall and its wage bill500,000 h held against 10,000,000 h required; ¥0.6 to 1.5bn in wagesChinesemodelled 30
Single-trajectory collection time, embodiment-free rigabout 50 s to about 10 s, cost cut to one fifthChineseself-published 31
Measured worth of force in the demonstration+54.5% over vision-only; 7.5 N applied against the human's 6 NChinesereported 32
National teleoperation collection target1 hour continuous at 80% success or betterKoreanself-published 11
Demonstration budget for a six-step contact task48 demonstrations, 6 layouts by 8 trialsJapaneseverified 87
Teleoperation throughput correction43% faster than no correction, 50% over the prior method, about 88% on the hardest targetJapaneseverified 110
Identification cost sweep against annealing cooling rate2,989 / 28,762 / 279,927 trials at objective 0.022276 / 0.004156 / 0.000451Japaneseverified 94
Classical excitation-trajectory identification cost60 s at 100 Hz sampling, torque prediction error within 5%Chinesereported 23
Online identification cost, stated in bandwidth20 kHz torque loop, 2 kHz velocity loop, 12 bytes at 4 MbpsKoreanverified 6
Real samples at which the real-to-sim loop stops payingN=39 gives 8.7 mm, N=27 gives 10.1 mm, 39 real alone gives 18.3 mmFrenchverified 80
Simulation-to-real mixing ratio and its success pair5:1 ratio, 46.7% to 93.3%; ¥10 to ¥0.02 per trajectoryChineseself-published 27
Closed real-to-sim loop rates for limp objectsDART physics at 1 ms against stereo vision at 100 Hz, a 10:1 ratioGermanreported 67
Robot work priced in joules, production cycle9.95 Wh per cycle at 14.64 s and 2446 WGermanreported 68
Energy floor for one classical excitation run80 W controller draw across 60 s of excitation = 4.8 kJ, a floor onlyGerman and Chinesemodelled on reported inputs 54 23

Quantities bearing on gaps 8, 9 and 10: teleoperation data, the real-to-sim loop, and system identification. Bracket numbers index the review's reference list.

8. Transfer evidence and who evaluates it

RoboChallenge measured a real-robot success rate moving from 0% to 100%, with the same props, the same task and the same model held fixed; the only thing that changed was which class of human reset the scene between rollouts 15. Three classes ran two tasks, stacking bowls and pouring fries: experienced testers who had collected the training data, ignorant testers on first exposure, and adaptive testers who were the model's own authors. Adaptive testers scored highest, and the report documents a sweet-spot effect in which the adaptive tester located and reused favourable box positions 15. That is a variance term wider than almost every effect reported anywhere in this material. It applies to the rankings below, to the rankings this review drew in earlier sections, and to any future Institute number. A ranking is admissible only where the between-item signal exceeds the within-cell spread. This review did not locate a published residual spread under RoboChallenge's own fix, Visual Task Reproduction, having searched the arXiv paper and its relays 15.

Third-party evaluation, meaning an evaluator who is not the model's author, was located in one region of five. RoboChallenge scores models it did not build: pi0.5 task-specific finetune at 43.7% success and 62.2 progress score, pi0 at 28.3%, CogACT at 11.7%, and pi0.5 under the generalist protocol at 17.7%, a factor of 0.41 against its own task-specific number 17. By difficulty tag, temporal tasks sit at 5% and softbody at 8% 16. The annual report covers more than 40,000 real-robot trials across 30 standardised tasks, with top-three average success in the 35 to 51% band and one later entry at 64.33% 40. RoboDojo runs 18 real tasks at 10 trials each, 180 trials per policy, each scored double-blind by three reviewers, with human teleoperators at 100.0% against a best policy of 12.8% 19. Two reproducible control lists are published, with named control variables 43. CAICT's second evaluation batch is running; this review did not locate published per-company scores, having searched the programme's own platform 44.

Everywhere else the evaluator is the claimant, so self-publication is the wrong discriminator; trial count and protocol completeness are the right ones. AIST scores its own three baselines on 8 real UR5e tasks at 43.8% ±38, 47.9% ±32 and 39.6% ±38 99; the between-method signal is 8.3 points against spreads of ±32 to ±38, so the three policies are not separated by that experiment 101, each cell rests on 6 rollouts 100, and the underlying real dataset is listed as coming soon 102. A Japanese peer-reviewed letter reports per-step success across 6 layouts at 5 rollouts per cell 86. A French thesis reports 8.1 out of 10 against 6.7 out of 10 on real hardware, where one trial is one of the ten points 78. One located study ran a single protocol on both sides, 50 identical target poses in simulation and on a KUKA LBR iiwa 60. A J-STAGE query for Sim-to-Real with 実機 returns 4,862 results, so any claim of no external evidence would be a search failure 112.

China's most-quoted transfer pair is 89.4% success in simulation against 12% in real household scenes, a stated 77-point transfer chasm, attributed across at least six Chinese outlets to the Stanford HAI AI Index Report 2026 20. This review did not locate those two figures in that report, having searched the AI Index document itself and each Chinese relay; no relay cites a page or a chapter 20. The pair is also inconsistent with the paired real-hardware evidence. RoboDojo's real leaderboard tops out at 12.8%, and its 42 simulation tasks and 18 real tasks are different task sets, so 8.80% against 12.8% is not a transfer measurement 19; AIST's simulation and real task lists are likewise disjoint 101. No source located in five regions publishes a paired sim-and-real success measurement on one task set. Any use of 77 points in this corpus is unsourced twice over.

Two further numbers get read as transfer claims and are not. Eight humanoids ran 64 cumulative hours on a tablet quality-control line, 17,625 units, at a stated 99.99% operation success under continuous live stream 37; the arithmetic reconciles to about 7 failed operations in 55,000 to 65,000 repetitions of a fixed motion on a fixed fixture, a failure rate roughly 7,800 times apart from RoboDojo's 12.8% per-task figure 38. The difference is the task envelope, not the policy, and any Institute reliability claim must state which of the two it is. Separately, a vendor reports 98% zero-shot first-grasp success with no real-machine training data across 100 or more unseen objects; the reports located state no trial count and no reset procedure, and this review did not locate a protocol 39. That is the precise configuration under which a measured success rate was shown to move from 0% to 100% 15.

This review struck its own strongest Korean candidate. The 77.3% to 91.7% grasp pair over 65 real trials 1 is not a transfer measurement, because both endpoints are real-world figures differing only in the ranking rule, and the stated trial count does not produce either percentage as a denominator. Nothing located evaluates the Institute's own policies, and the only SO-100-class transfer number in the five-region record is 51.7% to 78.3%, with the trial count not stated 85. Gap 13 sits at 30 degrees of ninety. The binding constraint is engineering implementation: the control lists exist 43 and the hardware runs are what is missing, one national coordination budget outside China being EUR 20 M over four years across fourteen institutions 70, roughly 600 arms at the EUR 33,180 list price 55. Threshold: 30 rollouts per policy-task cell on SO-101-class hardware under a published control list, with within-cell spread below the claimed effect.

ClaimEvaluatorIndependent of the claimantGrade
Real-robot success rate moves 0% to 100% with task, props and model fixedRoboChallenge (Dexmal, Hugging Face)Yes; the instrument measured on itselfverified 15
pi0.5 43.7%, pi0 28.3%, CogACT 11.7% success on 30 real tasksRoboChallengeYesverified 17
Temporal tag 5%, softbody tag 8%, all-task mean 22%RoboChallengeYesverified 16
More than 40,000 real trials; top-three average 35 to 51%RoboChallenge annual report, via trade relayYesreported 40
Human teleoperators 100.0% against best policy 12.8%, 18 real tasksRoboDojo, three reviewers double-blindYesreported 19
Paired sim and real reward over 50 identical target poses, KUKA LBR iiwaJosifovski et al., on their own policiesNoverified 60
Real success 0/20 rising to 18.6/20 as randomisation bands are added, UR5Inria/Willow thesis author, own methodNoverified 71
ACT 43.8%, Diffusion Policy 47.9%, SARNN 39.6% on 8 real UR5e tasksAIST, on its own baselinesNoself-published 99
6 rollouts per real cell, inferred from percentage granularityThis review's arithmetic on Table IVNomodelled 100
89.4% simulation against 12% real household, 77-point gapAt least six outlets, attributed to AI Index 2026Not located in the attributed documentreported 20
99.99% operation success, 64 h, 17,625 units, live-streamedZhiyuan (智元) and Longcheer (龙旗科技)Noself-published 37
98% zero-shot first-grasp success, no real-machine training dataSudo (苏度科技)Noself-published 39
51.7% to 78.3% on SO100 with pretraining, trial count not statedLeRobot team, on its own modelNoself-published 85
77.3% to 91.7% grasp success over 65 real trialsPaper's own authors; struck by this reviewNoverified 1

Transfer claims located in the five-region sweep, with the evaluator, whether that evaluator is independent of the party making the claim, and the grade carried in this review's reference index.

9. Position and binding constraint, gap by gap

Thirteen gaps in the Institute's own corpus were stated before the global sweep ran, each naming something the corpus does not hold. Adjudicated against the five-region record, one closes, two remain open and ten close partly. The distribution of binding constraints across the thirteen is the most portable result in this review: engineering implementation six times, regulatory three, AI algorithms twice, computation efficiency once, workforce once. Two of thirteen bind on the thing the field spends most of its attention on.

Gap 11 closes, and it closes from the safety-standards regime rather than from the robotics literature. That is worth stating plainly because it is the shape of several results here. The quantity the corpus wanted, a published human contact field with a protocol attached, has existed in an international standard since 2016, in English, freely citable. What was missing was not the measurement but its use.

Gap 1 partly closes, and part of what closed it was a correction to this Institute rather than a change in the world. The corpus recorded an absence of holdings whose subject is the transition function itself. Searching in Japanese returns a school of work under a name that does not translate as world model. The absence was in part our vocabulary. Section 3 gives the terms.

The two gaps that remain open are the two that ask for an instrument rather than a result. A reference implementation of a drift protocol was not located in any region. System identification priced in energy was searched for in five regions and located in none: each region prices that lever in a different non-energy unit, and the region that owns the joule instrument has not pointed it at the experiment. Those are the two openings this review would put first.

GapPositionBinding constraintThreshold that would move it
11 Human-biomechanical contact fieldclosedregulatoryA learned contact policy that treats the 0.11 J face limit as a constraint
1 Transition function as the subject of a holdingpartly, 40 of 90AI algorithmsA dynamics score that predicts real transfer better than an appearance score
2 Action representationpartly, 45 of 90computation efficiencyA like-for-like comparison of emitter families on one body and one protocol
3 The sim-to-real taxpartly, 35 of 90engineering implementationA band-width against measured-loss curve covering dynamics, not appearance alone
4 The tactile epidermis as an instrumentpartly, 30 of 90engineering implementationA fingertip and whole-body pairing reported in one energy unit
5 Friction estimated rather than assumedpartly, 25 of 90engineering implementationAn online coefficient with an uncertainty band on a real manipulation task
7 Envelope versus taskpartly, 30 of 90regulatoryDegradation measured against elapsed operating time on the task
8 Hours per usable demonstrationpartly, 55 of 90workforceA published rate outside the two regions that state one
9 A closed real-to-sim looppartly, 40 of 90engineering implementationA loop composed end to end with its identification cost stated
12 Deformablespartly, 25 of 90AI algorithmsA deformable benchmark whose success criterion is not a binary event
13 Third-party evaluation of transferpartly, 30 of 90engineering implementationAn evaluator independent of the claimant, on the claimant's own policy
6 A reference drift implementationopen, 10 of 90engineering implementationA runnable protocol any party can execute
10 System identification priced in energyopen, 5 of 90regulatoryOne joules figure for one identification run

Table 9. All thirteen gaps. Positions are the authors' assessment against the cited quantities and are not measurements. The two open rows are the two that ask for an instrument rather than a result.

10. What this review did not locate

Seventy-four quantities were searched for across the five regions and not located. Recording them is part of the method, because an absent figure quietly replaced by an estimate becomes indistinguishable from a measurement two citations later. Five of the absences are held by every region that searched, and those are the real holes in the record rather than holes in one literature.

Joules per embodied task was not located as an embodied figure in any of the five regions. What exists sits one metric class lower: whole-machine battery envelopes, whole-robot cycle energy, and point-to-point manipulator task energy. One national standard now requires the figure as a reportable, and this review located no measured instance of it in any region. For an institute whose thesis is that energy is the accounting unit of physical agency, that is the single largest opening in the record.

System identification priced in energy was likewise not located in any region. A domain-randomisation band-width against measured-loss curve was not located in any region except one German sweep covering three dynamics parameters, whose own future-work section states that the visual case remains to be analysed. A coefficient of friction estimated online with an uncertainty band on a real manipulation task was not located in four of five regions. Task-level degradation as a function of elapsed operating time was not located in four of five, and no runnable protocol for it was located in the three regions that searched for one.

Two limits belong on this review itself. Five regions is not the world: Russian, Hindi, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian and the Nordic languages were not swept, and nothing here should be read as a statement about those records. And 28 of the 74 not-located records failed on access rather than on absence, 11 of them on documents sold rather than posted, so the boundary of this review is partly a paywall and is reported as such rather than as a finding about the world.

Quantity not locatedRegions that searched and did not find itConsequence for this review
Joules per embodied task, as an embodied figure5 of 5The Institute's own accounting unit has no measured instance in the record
System identification priced in energy5 of 5Gap 10 stays open
Band width against measured loss, dynamics parameters4 of 5, 1 partialGap 3 closes only on appearance
Online friction coefficient with an uncertainty band4 of 5Gap 5 stays partly closed
Task degradation against elapsed operating time4 of 5Gap 7 stays partly closed
A paired sim-and-real measurement inside one benchmark4 of 5Gap 13 stays partly closed

Table 10. The absences held across regions. These are statements about what five sweeps located, not about what exists.

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