[COMPARE] Ecosystem Digest, July 13, 2026

[COMPARE Ecosystem]

COMPARE Ecosystem Digest, July 13, 2026

Hello COMPARErs! We’re in full swing of conference season with RSS starting today in Australia and UR later this week in Japan, followed swiftly by CASE next month in China, and then IROS in the USA after that. More conferences means more research being published, and with much of that research comes new open-source and benchmarking assets.  There’s a substantial amount of new material being released and the COMPARE Ecosystem could use some help! Not just in finding this new material, but integrating it into the various repositories on robot-manipulation.org. So with that, we are looking to recruit additional volunteers to maintain the COMPARE repositories! This task involves researching potential new entries – usually reading the corresponding paper or webpage – and characterizing them using the parameters defined in each repository, requiring some expertise of each type of asset (e.g., grasp planning, simulation, object datasets) and basic knowledge of Google Drive, specifically Google Sheets.  In doing so, you’ll gain an in-depth knowledge of the latest and greatest open-source and benchmarking research in robot manipulation, and we’ll feature your name as a maintainer on the website. It’s a great way to contribute back to the community! If you are interested in contributing to robot-manipulation.org by assisting with repository maintenance, please reach out to me, your humble COMPARE Community Facilitator, either via Slack message to Adam Norton or e-mail to compare....@gmail.com.  To give you an idea of the work in the queue, the current set of assets awaiting integration into the COMPARE repositories are noted in each section below. Help us continue building this community resource together! Until next time COMPARErs: keep yourselves (and your GPUs) cool! 🧊

Here’s what you may have missed and what’s coming up soon: COMPARE is looking to recruit volunteers to assist with maintaining the open-source and benchmarking repositories on robot-manipulation.org (reach out if you’re interested in contributing!), new open-source hardware designs have been added, and RSS and UR are this week! 💬 = recent discussions in the 🤖 = recent additions to

Open-Source Software Components 💬 #software: The following open-source software components are awaiting integration into the COMPARE repositories; please reach out if you feel like lending a hand! 🤝 Grasp Planners: FunGrasp, Bin-Picking-CAS-GCS, CDex-Grasp, D(R,O) Grasp, Dex4D Motion Planners: cuRoboV2 (new version released) Segmentation: Bin-Picking-CAS-GCS Learning Environments: RoboLab, Tektonian Simulac Simulators: Genesis World, OpenSai, iMETRO

Open-Source Hardware Designs 🤖 Hardware Designs: 4 new entries (60 total): GELLO [data collection hardware]: diy kinematically equivalent leader robots Midas Hand [end-effector]: anthropomorphic 4-fingered hand Robot Nano Hand [end-effector]: tendon-driven 11-dof anthropomorphic hand Ruka-V2 [end-effector]: tendon-driven anthropomorphic hand with wrist  See the repository for more info on these and more open-source hardware designs!

Benchmarking 💬 #benchmarking: The following benchmarking assets are awaiting integration into the COMPARE repositories; please reach out if you feel like lending a hand! 🤝 Physical Objects and Artifacts: POMDAR Tools and Testbeds: RoboChallenge, UniVoxGen, TacBench, Tektonian Simulac, VLA-Replica We are also working out a redesign of these repositories based on higher-level categories of benchmarking materials, such as simulation-based assets, physical testing materials, and remotely accessible testbeds. Stay tuned!

Datasets 💬 #datasets: The following datasets are awaiting integration into the COMPARE repositories; please reach out if you feel like lending a hand! 🤝 Grasp Datasets: CDex-Grasp Manipulation Datasets: OpenEgo, SABER-10K

Events What’s coming up soon? RSS 2026: Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) 2026, July 13 - 17, 2026, Sydney, Australia UR 2026: International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots (UR) 2026, July 15 - 18, 2026, Osaka, Japan Subscribe to the Robot Manipulation Events Google Calendar to stay in the loop!

🤖 Have suggestions for open-source products or benchmarking assets that should be added? Submit them here! https://forms.gle/LHrtmDpm82X4qrDk6 🤖 Have suggestions for events we should add? Use this form to let us know! https://forms.gle/PfiSRjcuQnavbPNS9

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Adam Norton, Community Facilitator, COMPARE Ecosystem

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