[COMPARE] Ecosystem Digest, August 24 - September 6, 2025

[COMPARE Ecosystem]

COMPARE Ecosystem Digest, August 24 - September 6, 2025

Here’s what you may have missed last week and what’s coming up soon!
COMPARE keynote at IHO25, soliciting contributions from the community, and CLAWAR, SIMERO, CoRL, and Humanoids are coming up this month!

August 31, 2025: COMPARE Community Facilitator, Adam Norton, gave a keynote presentation at the International Humanoid Olympiad 2025 (IHO25) titled, "Benchmarking and Reproducibility of Humanoid Performance," highlighting best practices and lessons learned from benchmarking efforts in legged robot mobility, manipulation, humanoids, and their relevance to reproducibility of robotics research results. Access the slides here!

🤖 Latest additions to robot-manipulation.org:

• No new additions this week, but if you have suggestions for open-source products or benchmarking assets that should be added, submit them here! https://forms.gle/LHrtmDpm82X4qrDk6 
• Here's a summary of the categories we are collecting:
• Open-Source Software Components: Grasp Planning (Planners, Datasets), Motion Planning (Planners, Datasets), Perception (Scene Segmentation, Object Detection, Pose Estimation), Learning (Environments), Simulation (Simulators, Models and Descriptions)
• Open-Source Hardware Designs: Arms, End-Effectors, Tactile Sensors, Humanoids, Demonstration Hardware
• Benchmarking Assets: Datasets (Manipulation, Grasps, Objects, Motion Planning), Objects and Artifacts (Physical Objects and Artifacts, Datasets), Tools and Testbeds, Protocols, Leaderboards

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

🤖 What's coming up soon?

CLAWAR 2025: International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots, September 5 - 7, 2025 in Shenzhen, China

SIMERO 2025: 5th Summer School on Singularities of Mechanisms and Robotic Manipulators, September 15-19, 2025 in Barcelona, Spain

CoRL 2025: Conference on Robot Learning 2025, September 27-30, 2025 in Seoul, Korea (co-located with Humanoids)

There are 10 workshops being held related to robot manipulation on Saturday, September 27th; see the Workshops page on robot-manipulation.org for more info!

• ‼️ Registration to CoRL is currently closed due to venue limitations; see the conference website for more information

Humanoids 2025: IEEE-RAS 24th International Conference on Humanoid Robots 2025, September 30 - October 2, 2025 in Seoul, Korea (co-located with CoRL)

There are 3 workshops being held related to robot manipulation on Thursday, October 2nd; see the Workshops page on robot-manipulation.org for more info!

• ‼️ Registration to Humanoids is currently closed due to venue limitations; see the conference website for more information

🤖 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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