Digital Dialogs (Episode 5 | S9) - Sim-to-Real: Bridging the Reality Gap

In this episode, Brigitta Errera and Vincenzo Miccichè from Reply's Area42 lab join Digital Dialogs to share how they're tackling sim-to-real transfer for humanoid robotics — using Gaussian splatting to build high-fidelity simulated environments, training policies in sim, and deploying them on physical robots. The conversation also explores how agentic coding frameworks like Code as Policies are creating new pathways for language-driven robot programming, and how these two approaches might converge. Listeners will get a hands-on view of what it takes to bridge the reality gap from inside a lab that's actively doing it.