[COMPARE] Ecosystem Digest, August 17 - August 30, 2025

[COMPARE Ecosystem]

COMPARE Ecosystem Digest, August 17 - August 30, 2025

Here’s what you may have missed last week and what’s coming up soon!
Curated lists of robot arms, IHO starts this weekend, CLAWAR starts next week, and SIMERO the week after that!

🤖 Recent discussions in the COMPARE Slack:

• #general: Curated list of commercial and open-source robot arms? [link]
• NIST is working on a database of over 2200 models! While not public yet, a list of 1000+ entries for 6-7 DOF industrial arms was shared [link]
• Check out the ROS 2 Compatible Hardware List from PickNik
• The COMPARE Hardware Designs repo currently contains 12 entries tagged "Arms" that are open-source
• Have other suggestions? Reply to the linked thread in Slack!

• Not part of the COMPARE Slack, but want to contribute to these discussions? Please email compare....@gmail.com with your thoughts!

🤖 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 

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

🤖 What's coming up soon?

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! "Benchmarking and Reproducibility of Humanoid Performance"
  

CLAWAR 2025: September 5 - 7, 2025 in Shenzhen, China; relevant special sessions held during the conference:

• Bio-Inspired Robotics for Dynamic Locomotion and Manipulation in Challenging Environments
• Touch 2025: Tactile sensing and Haptic Technologies in Touch-driven Robotics  
• See conference website for more information!

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

• The purpose of this school is to introduce key methods, milestone results, and main problems involving singularities of mechanisms and robotic manipulators.
• See the 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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