At ICRA, NVIDIA Research highlights eight papers on sim-to-real transfer, enabling robots to perceive, reason, plan, and act in dynamic environments. Methods like ScheduleStream, COMPASS, Grasp-MPC, SPARR, and SEAL improve coordination, navigation, grasping, assembly, and task execution, with significant gains in success rates and robustness.

Cloudflare processes over a billion events per second, but data was scattered and hard to access. They built Town Lake, a unified analytics platform, and Skipper, an AI agent that lets anyone ask questions in plain English and get auditable answers. The article details platform architecture, governance (default-closed), and the AI agent's workings.