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What Happens When AI Runs the Robotics Experiments? takes place on Friday, October 16, 2026 from 8:00 AM to 10:00 AM (Asia/Singapore).

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What Happens When AI Runs the Robotics Experiments?

Name: What Happens When AI Runs the Robotics Experiments?
Start: 2026-10-16T06:00:00+00:00
End: 2026-10-16T08:00:00+00:00
Location: Lorong AI @ One-North, 69 Ayer Rajah Cres., Singapore 139961

About this event

Jia Qi Yip (Lead Research Engineer, Menlo Research) will share on “Agentic Autoresearch for Reinforcement Learning Locomotion.”

Training reinforcement learning policies in simulation still involves a lot of manual trial and error. Researchers tune rewards, wait for training runs, benchmark the resulting policies, and decide what to try next. But what happens when an AI agent takes on that research loop itself?

Jia Qi will share what happened when they handed this outer loop to an agent for humanoid locomotion on Asimov, an open-source humanoid robot. Working unattended for 16 to 32 hours at a time, the agent used Isaac Lab for training and a separate MuJoCo benchmark as its judge. It ran reward ablations, architecture sweeps, and recurrent (LSTM) policies, and even built its own terrain benchmark with stairs, slopes, and obstacles.

Its best policy reduced path drift by more than half compared with their production baseline, without losing push robustness. Jia Qi will unpack what the agent got right, where it still needed a human, and what this means for how reinforcement learning research is done.

More About the Speaker

Jia Qi Yip is the lead research engineer at Menlo Research, where he works across the full stack of Asimov, an open-source humanoid robot, from speech and agents to locomotion, manipulation and hardware. His focus is closing the robotics deployment gap by applying the latest research to tough real-world problems.

More About the Series

Singapore Embodied AI Colloquium (SEAIC) is a focused technical research series built around researcher-driven discussions and sharing on frontier topics in embodied AI, robot learning, and physical AI.

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About What Happens When AI Runs the Robotics Experiments? in Singapore

What Happens When AI Runs the Robotics Experiments? is a free independent taking place on Friday, October 16, 2026 at Lorong AI @ One-North, 69 Ayer Rajah Cres., Singapore 139961, Singapore, Singapore. This independent is organised by Lorong AI. Attendance is free — register to secure your spot. The event runs for approximately 2 hours.