ROBOTICS

Physics-based synthetic data for robot perception

Validate robot perception in physically accurate simulation

Deploying autonomous systems in shared human–robot environments is risky, slow, and hazardous. Generate deterministic, physics-based sensor simulation and perfectly aligned synthetic datasets to validate and train robotics perception before real-world deployment.

THE CHALLENGE

Robotics perception has to work in the environments hardest to test in

Perception is what lets an autonomous mobile robot, forklift, or fleet operate safely around people. But the industrial environments these systems run in are the hardest and riskiest places to collect data and test in.

Safety

Non-negotiable in shared spaces

When robots operate alongside people, a missed or late detection is a safety event, not a metric. Perception must be proven before deployment, not in production.

Compliance

Certification demands traceable evidence

Meeting functional safety requirements such as IEC 61508 SIL 2 means proving that perception performs as specified — and uncontrolled real-world testing makes that evidence hard to produce.

Multi-sensor

Aligned ground truth is hard to capture

Synchronizing and labeling pixel- and point-accurate ground truth across sensors from real-world capture is slow and error-prone.

Observability

Perception regressions are hard to see

Without a deterministic way to re-run identical conditions, a model update can silently degrade performance — and the regression only surfaces in deployment.

Time, cost & scale

Scaling the wrong way

Capturing and labeling multi-sensor datasets in live facilities is slow, costly, and disruptive — and every layout change, new site, or robot platform means capturing again.

Edge cases

Rare in data, routine in reality

The situations most likely to cause a perception failure are the least represented in captured real-world datasets.

THE SOLUTION

Physics-based synthetic data to validate, train, and analyze robotics perception

One simulation platform covers the full perception workflow: validate against repeatable scenarios, analyze where performance breaks, and train on synthetic datasets built for your models.

Deterministic, physically accurate sensor simulation

Camera, LiDAR, radar, and thermal simulated with physical accuracy in a single platform. Your synthetic data reflects how your target sensors actually respond.

Multi-sensor ground truth from one scene

One consistent scene produces perfectly aligned, pixel-accurate ground truth for every sensor at once.

Cost-effective and scalable

Generate scenarios, test suites, and synthetic datasets on demand, at the scale your program needs.

Anyverse synthetic data: parcels on a warehouse conveyor, with a worker in a hi-vis vest and a forklift in the background Material ground truth from Anyverse synthetic data: the warehouse scene with a worker, pallet jack and robot arm color-coded by material Autonomous mobile robots and a robotic forklift working alongside staff in hi-vis vests in a warehouse with racking Semantic label ground truth from Anyverse synthetic data: the warehouse scene with people, pallet jack and robot arm color-coded by class Anyverse synthetic data: a worker moving a pallet jack across a busy warehouse while others walk the floor near a robot arm Depth ground truth from Anyverse synthetic data: the warehouse conveyor scene in grayscale, with brightness showing distance
Validate

Anyverse scenario is deterministic — it renders identically on every run — so results are comparable across runs and every failure is reproducible.

  • Standardized test suites. Build scenario libraries that reflect your operating conditions and run perception against them consistently.
  • Edge-case coverage on demand. Construct rare, dangerous, and hard-to-capture situations deliberately with synthetic data.
  • Regression testing. Run the same suite against each new model version to catch perception regressions before release.
Train

Build training and augmentation datasets for perception models directly from simulation.

  • Procedural generation at scale for object and obstacle detection, with distribution-based domain randomization for statistically balanced datasets.
  • Multi-modal annotations in every frame — semantic and instance segmentation, depth, 3D position, normals, motion vectors, material, and more.
  • Fast iteration — datasets follow your taxonomy, ontology, and labeling spec for direct integration into your ML pipeline.
Analyze

Understand where and why perception holds or breaks — and make design decisions before hardware is committed.

  • Benchmark across conditions — lighting, clutter, traffic density, and shift patterns, using controlled, repeatable scenarios.
  • Evaluate sensor configurations — selection, placement, mounting, and field of view, adjusted in the scene rather than on a physical robot.
  • Isolate failure causes — change one condition at a time (lighting, occlusion, object material) and re-measure to pinpoint what a failure depends on.
BENEFITS

Outcomes for perception teams

Test without disrupting operations

Run perception against large simulated scenario suites while your facility keeps running — no paused picking, no closed aisles, no instrumented test robots.

Build traceable evidence for your safety case

Deterministic scenarios give you reproducible test results and ground truth tied to the exact conditions that produced them — evidence you can carry into certification and compliance reviews.

Broad sensor coverage in one platform

Work with the full sensor suite your robot carries in one toolchain, instead of maintaining separate tools per modality.

Scale across facilities and fleets

Bring a new site, layout, or robot platform into validation and training through configuration, not a new on-site data campaign.

Protect workers in shared spaces

Cover human–robot interactions — people crossing paths, bending, reaching, partially occluded — in simulation before robots share the floor with your team.

Engineering time on models, not labeling

No manual annotation on synthetic data means your team spends its time improving perception, not labeling and aligning sensor data.

See Anyverse applied to your robotics perception stack

Book a demo to walk through synthetic data and sensor simulation for your sensors, facilities, and perception pipeline.