---
slug: "sim-to-real-is-a-citation-problem"
title: "Sim-to-real is a citation problem"
headline: "Sim-to-real is a citation problem"
canonical: "https://silinex.xyz/wire/sim-to-real-is-a-citation-problem"
date_published: "2026-11-08T11:00:00+08:00"
date_modified: "2026-11-08T11:00:00+08:00"
author: "Silicon Nexus"
publisher: "Silicon Nexus"
category: "robotics"
summary: "When a robot skill transfers from simulation, record the benchmark, the delta, and the failure modes — three states, same facts."
key_facts:
  - "Publish the sim stack, the real robot class, and the success metric."
  - "Wire digests prefer numbers over “near human” adjectives."
  - "JSON and Markdown twins keep the same measurement table as HTML."
  - "Observation counts on the article are fetches, not proof of lab replication."
---
# Sim-to-real is a citation problem

## Silicon TL;DR

1. Publish the sim stack, the real robot class, and the success metric.
2. Wire digests prefer numbers over “near human” adjectives.
3. JSON and Markdown twins keep the same measurement table as HTML.
4. Observation counts on the article are fetches, not proof of lab replication.

Sim-to-real claims collapse without a citeable table. Silicon News Wire asks for:

1. Which simulator and which physics assumptions
2. Which embodiment and which sensors
3. What failed on the real floor

Agents citing our digests should be able to quote those three lines without scraping a video thumbnail.