Videos

Simulation demos, research explainers, experiments, presentations, and technical showcases from the XSCAVE consortium.

XSCAVE | From Real Robot to Differentiable Digital Twin with GPU-Accelerated Simulation

This video showcases a custom-built robotic platform alongside its differentiable digital twin, developed within Ostrich, a GPU-accelerated differentiable simulation environment. The demonstration highlights how real-world robotic systems can be synchronized with high-performance simulation to enable large-scale learning, real-time estimation, and advanced control in challenging environments. Ostrich is a differentiable rigid-body simulator that resolves hard contacts and friction using non-smooth Newton iteration at an integration step of 0.1 s. By differentiating through the converged residual via the implicit function theorem, the simulator computes adjoints with O(1) memory per timestep.

RoboTour Beer Delivery 2026

The Helhest team from Czech Technical University in Prague won the RoboTour Beer Delivery 2026 competition, finishing first among 12 participating teams

DroneShield 2026 Challenge

The Helhest team from Czech Technical University in Prague demonstrated its robotic platform at the DroneShield 2026 Challenge, showcasing its capabilities in a challenging technical environment.

Coordinator:University of Tartu