Genesis AI Unveils Nyx, Quadrants, and Genesis World 1.0 for Scalable Robotics

AI Unveils Nyx, Quadrants, and Genesis World 1.0 for Scalable Robotics">

['Genesis AI has announced the release of Genesis World 1.0, a comprehensive physics platform designed to accelerate the development of robotics foundation models through simulation-based evaluation. The platform consists of four key components: the Genesis World physics engine, Nyx, a real-time path-traced renderer, Quadrants, a Python-to-GPU compiler, and a simulation interface. This integrated system aims to address the bottlenecks in robotics model development, specifically data and iteration speed.', 'The field of robotics has heavily focused on data, but Genesis AI argues that the slower, less-discussed bottleneck is the model development cycle itself, particularly how fast teams can evaluate candidate policies and compare model checkpoints.

A typical policy evaluation at Genesis spans hundreds of tasks with hundreds of episodes each, which in the real world would require over 200 hours of continuous robot operation. Genesis World 1.0 can run the same evaluation in under 0.5 hours with no human or hardware in the loop and bit-exact result consistency across runs, roughly two orders of magnitude faster than real-world evaluation.', 'The research team at Genesis AI deliberately prioritized evaluation over using simulation for training data generation to maintain a clean signal and avoid performance improvements that might only reflect a tighter fit to simulator dynamics rather than a genuinely better model. They describe their evaluation approach as zero-shot real-to-sim, where policies evaluated in simulation are trained exclusively on real-world data.

The team reports a Pearson correlation of 0.8996 between simulation and on-hardware rollouts across three model variants and 14 tasks, indicating a strong correlation between simulated and real-world performance.', 'Nyx, a GPU-accelerated path tracer, is available as a plugin for Genesis World, providing noise-free 1080p frames in 4 ms or less on a high-end consumer GPU. Quadrants, a cross-platform compiler for GPU-accelerated physics simulation, has been released under Apache 2.0, offering significant performance improvements over its predecessor, Taichi. Genesis World 1.0 is open-source and features a multi-physics engine that can handle various types of simulations, including articulated rigid bodies, FEM for elastic deformables, and SPH for fluids.', 'The simulation interface connects the physics engine, renderer, and compiler into a usable system for downstream robotics applications, including tooling for creating digital twins and automated environment generation.

Genesis AI structures evaluation as a taxonomy of orthogonal perturbation axes, allowing for the assessment of robustness across various dimensions. This approach enables the efficient evaluation of policies and comparison of model checkpoints, which is crucial for the development of scalable robotics foundation models.']