[COMPARE] Ecosystem Digest, June 15 - June 28, 2025

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COMPARE Ecosystem Digest, June 15 - June 28, 2025

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

🤖 Recent discussions in the COMPARE Slack workspace:

#software_motion-planning: New repository being built for Motion Planning Datasets: looking for feedback from the community about building a new repo [link]
#benchmarking_objects-artifacts: Toward YCB 2.0: a worldwide community-based dataset for robotics: a pitch for a new "local" YCB object set that makes for easier replication around the globe [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:

As mentioned above, we're building a new repository for motion planning datasets! It's become apparent we should start organizing a repo of datasets to use for benchmarking motion planning. Have suggestions on datasets we should include? Use this Google Form to let us know! https://forms.gle/LHrtmDpm82X4qrDk6

MotionBenchMaker (MBM) is an open-source benchmarking toolkit designed for robotic motion planning that lets users procedurally generate realistic motion-planning problems and datasets. It offers modular utilities—like a scene sampler for SE(3)/URDF-based variations, a problem generator that translates object-centric grasp or placement targets into full robot configurations, and conversion of scenes into both geometric and sensed representations. The package includes 40 prefabricated datasets spanning five common robots in eight environments and supports integrated benchmarking of planners from OMPL.

Many more additions are on their way as we still digest the material presented at ICRA, CVPR, and now RSS this week. Come across any new open-source products or benchmarking assets that should be added? Use this Google Form to let us know! https://forms.gle/LHrtmDpm82X4qrDk6

Events: Workshops and Competitions for the upcoming IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE) 2025 to be held in Los Angeles, California, USA

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

🤖 What's coming up soon?

Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) 2025 is happening now in Los Angeles! The first day of workshops are over, so now we're onto the main conference program and Wednesday's workshops. Several members of the COMPARE Ecosystem project are attending the conference; get in contact with Adam Norton (Community Facilitator) if you'd like to meet up!

Ubiquitous Robots (UR) 2025 is next week! College Station, TX, USA, June 30 - July 2, 2025

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

Adam Norton, Community Facilitator, COMPARE Ecosystem

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