[COMPARE] Ecosystem Digest, May 25 - June 7, 2025

[COMPARE Ecosystem]

COMPARE Ecosystem Digest, May 25 - June 7, 2025

Here’s what you may have missed last week and what’s coming up soon!

🤖 Recent discussions in the COMPARE Slack workspace:

• #software_general: How should frameworks (e.g., MoveIt, mjpl) be included in the COMPARE ecosystem? [link]; ROS 2 Compatible Hardware from PickNik [link]
• #software_learning: Recent release of RoboManipBaselines version 2.0 [link]
• #software_motion_planning: Should a repository of IK solvers be included in the COMPARE ecosystem? [link]
• #software_simulation: Community input on the use of MuJoCo for robot manipulation [link]

• We encourage everyone to engage in these discussions and to start your own! Make a post for a new topic in its respective channel or reply in threads to each post to participate.

🤖 Latest additions to robot-manipulation.org:

• Software: Grasp Planners: more planners are being added and parameters are being expanded! A more detailed update will be provided soon, so keep an eye out.

• We came across a lot of great open-source and benchmarking research at ICRA that we'll soon be adding to our repositories. Have suggestions for open-source products or benchmarking assets to add? Use this Google Form to let us know! https://forms.gle/LHrtmDpm82X4qrDk6

• Have suggestions for events we should add? Use this Google Form to let us know! https://forms.gle/PfiSRjcuQnavbPNS9

🤖 What's coming up soon?

• NEMS 2025 is this Friday! The New England Manipulation Symposium (NEMS) 2025 will be held June 6th in Cambridge, MA at the MIT Stata Center. Lots of great research from the region will be presented, including several talks and posters from COMPARE team members.

• CVPR 2025 and RSS 2025 are this month! See our Workshops repo for sessions at each conference.
• IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2025 will be held in Nashville, TN, USA on June 11-15, 2025
• Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) 2025 will be held in Los Angeles, CA, USA on June 21-25, 2025
• The COMPARE workshop on Benchmarking Robot Manipulation: Improving Interoperability and Modularity will be held on June 25, 2025. Full agenda with accepted paper submissions will be announced soon!

• Subscribe to the Robot Manipulation Events Google Calendar to stay in the loop!

🤖 As we continue to build out the COMPARE Ecosystem, please tell your fellow researchers about this effort! Two promo images are attached you can use. If you're posting on LinkedIn, please tag Adam Norton, COMPARE Community Facilitator 😀

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Adam Norton, Community Facilitator, COMPARE Ecosystem

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