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Manufacturing QA: When Your Production Run Is Shorter Than Your Training Data Collection

Modern manufacturing moves fast. Can AI-based QA system be ready before every new run — even if the line reconfigures every day?

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Manufacturing QA: When Your Production Run Is Shorter Than Your Training Data Collection

Modern manufacturing moves fast. Can AI-based QA system be ready before every new run — even if the line reconfigures every day?

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URDF to Digital Twin: Bringing Any Robot into Simulation

Validating a manipulator arm? Testing a quadruped? With our Blender-based pipeline, your URDF-defined robot quickly becomes a fully articulated Falcon system twin.

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Falcon 6.2: Faster LiDAR, Deeper Agentic Workflows, and Expanded Vibe Sim Access

Falcon 6.2 helps teams iterate faster on autonomy and robotics systems through scalable sensor simulation and integrated agentic workflows.

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Vibe Sim in Action: Tuning a Manufacturing Vision Model — All In Your Browser

Vibe Sim makes it easy to generate synthetic training data, test, and iterate on vision models — all from a single, integrated browser-based environment.

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UE5 is Becoming the Platform of Choice for Robotics Simulation

Epic Games showcases how UE5 works as the foundation for modern robotics simulation, and illustrates how Falcon uses it to to generate physically-grounded synthetic data that closes the sim2real gap.

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Accelerating SAR AI Development with Digital Twin Simulation

Falcon's new SAR capabilities set a new bar for synthetic radiometry data, backed by an environment modeling pipeline that makes truly multimodal AI training possible.

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Falcon 6.1: Meet Vibe Sim!

With Vibe Sim — a browser-based, agentic simulation co-pilot that combines natural language control with physically grounded digital twin simulation — Falcon is more accessible than ever!

February 20, 2026

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Falcon 5.4: Closing the Physical AI Data Gap — with Speed and Accuracy

Falcon 5.4 delivers faster, easier, and more powerful synthetic data generation with new sensors, world-model integrations, living datasets, UV-based segmentation, and more!

November 19, 2025

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Accelerating Physical AI Deployment by Closing the Gen2Real Gap

The Gen2Real gap is keeping generative AI from fulfilling its synthetic data potential. But as with the Sim2Real gap before it — we can close it! Here's how to start.

September 17, 2025

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Falcon 5.3: More Realism, More Control, More Robots!

Falcon 5.3 introduces mission-ready SAR, physically grounded IR, versioned data workflows, expanded robotics support, and more!

August 27, 2025

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Detecting Beyond Sight: Building AI-Enabled SAR Intelligence with Synthetic Data

Falcon’s new virtual SAR sensor generates high-fidelity synthetic radar imagery, enabling rapid creation of labeled SAR datasets across mission-specific scenarios— designed for AI model training.

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Leveraging Synthetic Data for Real-World Object Detection

Guest blogger, Dr. Sergio Sanz, breaks down how he leveraged Falcon-generated data and a novel pipeline approach to win Duality AI’s Synthetic-to-Real Object Detection Challenge with perfect accuracy.

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Faster, Smarter, More Collaborative — Falcon 5.2 Is Here!

Latest releases brings Unreal Engine 5.5, enhanced rendering, higher-fidelity twins, and new collaboration tools—all to boost simulation precision and accelerate AI training and deployment.

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Autodesk Research: How Digital Twins Accelerate AI Model Deployment

At the Autodesk Research Residency, we tackle complex robotics challenges and advance digital twin technology through rapid scanning and Gaussian splatting for faster and more automated twin creation.

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Integrity Threats in AI: When Data Poisoning Undermines Model Effectiveness

Data poisoning: what is it? And why does it matter? In this blog we explore best practices to secure your data, and how high-quality synthetic data can bring powerful protection to your AI pipeline.

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US Army’s Next Counter-Drone Weapon Starts in Simulation, Not a Lab

From NextGen Defense: The US Army is partnering with Duality AI to develop an AI-driven counter-drone system, built and tested in simulation before deployment.

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Falcon 5.1 is Here: Streamlined Workflows, Enhanced UI, and More!

Today we’re excited to announce the release of Falcon 5.1, a focused update that brings several user experience and workflow enhancements based on our work with customers and EDU users.

February 21, 2025

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Training YOLOv8 with Synthetic Data from Falcon

How can you use Falcon to train a vision model like YOLOv8? In this blog we present a high-level walkthrough from simulation scenario creation to model training and testing. Let's dive in!

February 12, 2025

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With Falcon 4.4 and New EDU License, Duality is Empowering the Next Generation of AI Developers

Today marks the arrival of our educational license — designed for anyone looking to learn to build better AI models with digital twin simulation. Meet EDU.

November 20, 2024

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Off-Road Autonomy: Duality's Work With NASA JPL in the DARPA RACER Program

Interview with Duality AI co-founders Apurva Shah and Michael Taylor on how cutting edge technologies of the entertainment industry are solving the steepest challenges in off-road autonomy.

September 12, 2024

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Falcon 4.3: Nanite, Plugins, Site Twins, and More!

With an upgrade to Unreal Engine 5.3, the Latest Falcon release brings even higher simulation accuracy with enhanced real-time performance — all while lowering the bar for digital twin creation!

August 20, 2024

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Falcon 4.2 with FalconEditor is Here!

Falcon 4.2 brings a host of exciting updates — chief of which is FalconEditor: an intuitive visual tool designed to streamline and accelerate the adoption of digital twin simulation.

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Sim2Real for Embodied AI: Testing Simulation-Predicted Behavior of a Real-World LLM-Controlled Drone

Putting task coding to the test: the same natural language prompted mission is carried out in a digital site twin in Falcon, and then in the corresponding real-world location. Let's see how it went!

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Prompts to Execution — The Task Coding Framework for Large Language Models in Robotics

An effective approach to make robotic systems less brittle and more adaptable, while keeping their behavior predictable — And how digital twin simulation in Falcon is bringing it to the real world.

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Can SORA’s Visually Amazing Videos Train Other AI Models?

Speculating how generative AI synthetic data may compare with real world data and physically based simulation techniques.

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Falcon Version 4.1 is Here!

Our first release of 2024 brings exciting new updates to FalconSim, FalconCloud, and FalconEditor. In this blog we dive into the brand new features rolling out today.

February 9, 2024

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ViperGPT Takes a Walk in the Park: Evaluating Vision Systems for Embodied AI in FalconCloud

ViperGPT shows great potential as a visual system for Embodied AI. We use FalconCloud to learn how VipertGPT sees the world.

February 2, 2024

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Creating Simulation-Ready Digital Twins (The Digital Twin Encapsulation Standard, Presented at I/ITSEC 2023)

Modularity and reusability are key features driving digital twin simulation — so how do we create real interoperability that ensures a meaningful and long lasting digital twin infrastructure?

November 29, 2023

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KEF Robotics: Tethered Drones Learn Safe Navigation of Complex Environments

KEF Robotics provides state-of-the-art autonomy software to fly aircraft without a human pilot. With Falcon, KEF successfully took on unique challenges faced by tethered drones.

November 27, 2023

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Say Hello to FalconCloud — Digital Twin Simulation for the Entire Smart System Product Lifecycle

Today we’re announcing an expansion of the Falcon product suite with the debut of two new products: FalconCloud and FalconEditor.

November 9, 2023

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Geospatial to Simulation: How To Build Digital Twins of Real-World Places

Creating high-fidelity Digital Site Twins can be a daunting task. Duality's AI-powered pipeline enables our customers to build a digital twin of any desired location from already available data!

October 5, 2023

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How Will Internet AI Crossover to the Physical World?

Can advanced internet AI models be harnessed to make robots smarter and safer — making them our natural collaborators? We explore Embodied AI, and how digital twin simulation can be its bridge.

September 13, 2023

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Launching Rockets with Falcon-Simulink Integration

Powerful integrations are vital to Falcon. We show one way of co-simulating a rocket launch with MATLAB Simulink and Falcon for generating higher accuracy results.

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Evolving Duality: Our New Logo Design

Duality's visual designer Mia Rincón takes us through her journey of creating the new Duality logo.

January 31, 2023

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Building City-Scale Simulation with Falcon x AWS SimSpace Weaver

This project earned Duality a spot on Fast Co's World Changing Idea List. We walk through how we built it by integrating Falcon with AWS SimSpace Weaver.

November 30, 2022

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Keeping it FAIR: OGC and the Quest for Open Standards

The Open Geospatial Consortium wants geospatial data to be Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable. We agree, and propose our standard for truly interoperable Digital Twins.

November 21, 2022

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Building the Open Metaverse at SIGGRAPH

Field reporting from SIGGRAPH 2022 — and the importance of the open metaverse for geospatial data projects.

August 25, 2022

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What’s the Difference Between the Enterprise and Consumer Metaverses?

The enterprise metaverse is a Fortnite but for digital twins. Duality co-founder, Apurva Shah presents a perspective for developers on the challenges, and opportunities, ahead.

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Is Your Machine Learning Model Bingeing on Junk Data? Part III

Part 3 of how we quantify if our synthetic data is relevant and valuable using the Three I’s frameworks: Indistinguishability, Information Richness, and Intentionality.

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Is Your Machine Learning Model Bingeing on Junk Data? Part II

Part 2 of how we quantify if our synthetic data is relevant and valuable u.

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Is Your Machine Learning Model Bingeing on Junk Data?

Training a model on poor quality data can cause it to pick up “bad habits” that don’t transfer well to real-world scenarios. So how do we quantify if our synthetic data is relevant and valuable?

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Runtime Assets Loading Showdown in Falcon (starring USD and glTF)

USD is game-changing for composing simualtion scenarios, but parsing it is complex and slow. Meanwhile loading pak files in Unreal is a breeze. Can we have the best of both worlds?

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Probe Sensors for Simulating Warehouse Robot Fleets

Efficiency drives much of Duality’s purpose — and it led us to develop a novel approach to simulating a probe sensor for guiding an autonomous warehouse robot fleet (with many more applications).

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Applying the Metaverse Design Framework

Duality’s founder, Apurva Shah first shared the framework for metaverse design while teaching his “Designing the Metaverse” class at California College of the Arts (CCA). This year, we brought it i...

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Environmental Design: Achieving High-Quality Digital Twin Simulation, Efficiently at Scale

How to design high-fidelity, realistic environments for digital twins and simulation with maximum workflow efficiency.

January 27, 2022

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Game Engines and Determinism

“Game engines cannot be physically accurate simulators” is a maxim in need of retirement. We prove it false by demonstrating determinism in Unreal Engine.

August 18, 2021

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Training Robots with Unreal

Falcon, built on top of Unreal Engine, enables testing and training of autonomous systems in environments so realistic that machine learning networks can’t tell the difference between the synthesiz...

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Reinforcement Learning in Falcon

In this end-to-end operations demo, two autonomous vehicles (quadcopter and a compact track loader), are trained to perform a search and retrieve mission of airdropped supplies.

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Defining the Metaverse

Through the lens of interaction design, Duality CEO, Apurva Shah, proposes a unified, practice oriented definition of the metaverse.

January 23, 2021

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What is the metaverse?

The Metaverse is an elusive idea. Duality’s CEO Apurva Shah provides a brief overview of what we mean by this term in diverse and useful contexts.

January 15, 2021

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UE4 + RPi

Unreal Engine is not only meant for large, expensive GPUs...

January 8, 2021

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Case Study: Drone Inspection

Achieving a 90% reduction in the development timeline of a drone-based detection system via virtual environments and high-quality synthetic data.

November 3, 2020

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Case Study: Simulating Forest Fires

We use digital twins of consumer off-the-shelf Quadcopter and digital camera to determine the land coverage of a fire at a specific GPS location.

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USD + Robotics

Improving pipeline integration for robotics teams and reducing ramp up time with Unreal Engine and Duality’s USD importer.

December 15, 2019