[COMPARE] Ecosystem Digest, August 3 - August 16, 2025

[COMPARE Ecosystem]

COMPARE Ecosystem Digest, August 3 - August 16, 2025

Here’s what you may have missed last week and what’s coming up soon!
More grasp datasets have been added to robot-manipulation.org, IEEE CASE 2025 and TAROS 2025 are next week, and IHO 2025 is later this month!

🤖 Latest additions to robot-manipulation.org:

• Benchmarking Assets:

• Datasets: Grasp Datasets: 3 new entries (53 total); see the repository for more details

• DexGrasp Anything: A new high-quality dexterous grasping dataset, the largest and most diverse to date, significantly improving the generalization capability of existing methods.

• GraspGen: A large-scale simulated grasp dataset for multiple robot embodiments and grippers. We release over 57 million grasps, computed for a subset of 8515 objects from the Objaverse XL (LVIS) dataset. These grasps are specific to three grippers: Franka Panda, the Robotiq-2f-140 industrial gripper, and a single-contact suction gripper (30mm radius).

• RElational GRAsps Dataset (REGRAD): A new dataset named REGRAD for the learning of relationships among objects and grasps. We collect the annotations of object poses, segmentations, grasps, and relationships for the target-driven relational grasping tasks. Our dataset is collected in both forms of 2D images and 3D point clouds. Moreover, since all the data are generated automatically, it is free to import new objects for data generation. We also released a real-world validation dataset to evaluate the sim-to-real performance of models trained on REGRAD.

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🤖 What's coming up soon?

• IEEE CASE 2025 and TAROS 2025 are next week, with IHO25 later this month!

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  IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE) 2025: August 17 - 21, 2025 in Los Angeles, CA, USA; relevant workshops and competitions:

• 2025 IEEE CASE Hackathon, August 17, 2025: The IEEE CASE Hackathon is a high-energy, hands-on event that brings together students, researchers, and professionals to solve real-world problems in automation, systems engineering, robotics, and smart manufacturing. Designed to foster collaboration across disciplines and institutions, the hackathon provides participants with a dynamic platform to explore innovative, data-driven solutions using cutting-edge AI technologies and engineering tools. Over a focused 7-day sprint, teams will develop rapid prototypes and present their solutions to a panel of expert judges from academia, industry, and government. 

• Embodied AI for Robot-Powered Manufacturing Systems, August 17, 2025: Industry 5.0 marks a major shift in industrial automation, emphasizing closer collaboration between autonomous robots and humans in dynamic manufacturing environments. To operate effectively in these settings, robots need to move beyond rigid, pre-programmed routines and demonstrate real-time adaptability, task flexibility, and context-aware behavior. This workshop explores how embodied AI can support those capabilities through tightly integrated hardware and software systems. Embodied AI endows robots the ability to perceive and interact with the physical world while continuously learning from it. 

• Robust Machine Intelligence for Factory Automation, August 21, 2025: The workshop on Robust Machine Intelligence for Factory Automation brings together researchers and practitioners from machine learning and automation domains to address a critical challenge: developing trustworthy machine learning technologies for mission-critical factory operations. As manufacturing environments become increasingly complex and dynamic, there is an urgent need to bridge the gap between cutting-edge AI advancements and practical industrial applications.

• Generative Physical AI for Robotics, August 21, 2025: The paradigm of "Generative Physical AI in robotics" leverages machine learning techniques such as deep generative models, probabilistic reasoning, and reinforcement learning to create a seamless bridge between simulated predictions and tangible implementations. By continuously refining models with real-world feedback, generative physical AI systems can iteratively improve their performance, enhance their adaptability, and foster robust decision-making in complex environments. This approach empowers robots to perform tasks with a level of sophistication that mirrors human intuition, making them more effective in dynamic scenarios like disaster response, autonomous navigation, and intricate manufacturing processes.

• The Future of Work in the Age of Robotics and AI, August 21, 2025: While robotics and AI are rapidly transforming the landscape of jobs and work, numerous obstacles remain in establishing new industries and job roles, all while striving to enhance productivity and the overall quality of work life. This workshop is designed to bring together individuals engaged in robotics and AI across various sectors. Its goal is to facilitate discussions on cutting-edge research, including topics such as human-robot collaboration, motion planning and control, and artificial intelligence. By examining these advancements, we aim to understand how robotics and AI will shape the future of work across industries such as manufacturing, construction, transportation, warehousing, and more. Through collaborative exploration and dialogue, the workshop seeks to illuminate the potential implications of these technologies for the workforce of tomorrow.
  

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  Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS) 2025: August 20 - 22, 2025 in York, UK

• TAROS will feature a special Session organized by ARIA publishing a new strategy on Modularity and Interoperability for Robotics and Autonomous Systems! More info here.

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  International Humanoid Olympiad 2025 (IHO25): August 29 - September 2, 2025 in Olympia, Greece

• COMPARE Community Facilitator, Adam Norton, will provide a keynote on Sunday, August 31, 2025, covering topics of evaluation, benchmarking, and reproducibility with humanoid robots!

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

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Adam Norton, Community Facilitator, COMPARE Ecosystem

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