Jonathan (Buzz) Embley-Riches

I’m Jonathan (Buzz) Embley-Riches, a PhD student at UCL in the Robot Perception and Learning Lab. My research sits at the intersection of robotics, simulation, and learning.

I built Unreal Robotics Lab (URLab) – an open-source Unreal Engine 5 plugin that embeds the MuJoCo physics engine for high-fidelity, photorealistic robotics simulation, sim-to-real transfer, and synthetic data generation. The alpha is public as of April 2026; see the release post, documentation, and the ICRA 2026 paper.

For questions about URLab, open an issue or discussion on GitHub, or reach out by email.