--- title: Robot Talk Episode 164 – Accelerating robot learning,... description: A podcast conversation features Michelle Lu, co-founder and CEO of Vsim Technology, discussing how simulation and AI accelerate robot skill learning. Lu... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/robot-talk-episode-164-accelerating-robot-learning-with-michelle-lu-ax8r4lnch twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Robot Talk Episode 164 – Accelerating robot learning, with Michelle Lu | daily.dev og:description: A podcast conversation features Michelle Lu, co-founder and CEO of Vsim Technology, discussing how simulation and AI accelerate robot skill learning. Lu... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/robot-talk-episode-164-accelerating-robot-learning-with-michelle-lu-ax8r4lnch og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/Ax8R4LNCh.png og:image:alt: Robot Talk Episode 164 – Accelerating robot learning, with Michelle Lu og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Robot Talk Episode 164 – Accelerating robot learning, with Michelle Lu **[Robohub](https://daily.dev/sources/robohub)** · 1 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A podcast conversation features Michelle Lu, co-founder and CEO of Vsim Technology, discussing how simulation and AI accelerate robot skill learning. Lu previously served as Director of Simulation Technology at NVIDIA, where she co-created Isaac Gym, the first end-to-end GPU-accelerated reinforcement learning framework for robotics. She left NVIDIA in 2022 to found Vsim, aiming to address efficiency, scalability, and the sim-to-real gap in simulation-based robotics AI. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What is Isaac Gym and who created it? Isaac Gym is the first end-to-end GPU-accelerated reinforcement learning framework for robotics, which set the template for how modern GPU-accelerated simulation-based RL is performed. It was created by Michelle Lu and her co-founder while she served as Director of Simulation Technology at NVIDIA, before they left in 2022 to found Vsim Technology. _daily.dev surfaces interviews like this for engineers tracking advances in simulation-driven robot learning._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [NVIDIA Research Advances Robotics From Simulation to the Real World](https://daily.dev/posts/nvidia-research-advances-robotics-from-simulation-to-the-real-world-gi32v6rru) · NVIDIA · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [How WPP accelerates humanoid robot training 10x with G4 VMs](https://daily.dev/posts/how-wpp-accelerates-humanoid-robot-training-10x-with-g4-vms-r55syypbi) · Google Cloud · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [How can robots acquire skills through interactions with the physical world? An interview with Jiaheng Hu](https://daily.dev/posts/how-can-robots-acquire-skills-through-interactions-with-the-physical-world-an-interview-with-jiahen-eilmbjqk3) · Robohub · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#nvidia](https://daily.dev/tags/nvidia), [#gpu](https://daily.dev/tags/gpu), [#robotics](https://daily.dev/tags/robotics), [#reinforcement-learning](https://daily.dev/tags/reinforcement-learning) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/robot-talk-episode-164-accelerating-robot-learning-with-michelle-lu-ax8r4lnch) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Robot Talk Episode 164 – Accelerating robot learning, with Michelle Lu","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/robot-talk-episode-164-accelerating-robot-learning-with-michelle-lu-ax8r4lnch","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/robot-talk-episode-164-accelerating-robot-learning-with-michelle-lu-ax8r4lnch"},"datePublished":"2026-10-02T13:21:04.911Z","dateModified":"2026-10-02T13:21:26.154Z","description":"A podcast conversation features Michelle Lu, co-founder and CEO of Vsim Technology, discussing how simulation and AI accelerate robot skill learning. 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