[COMPARE] Ecosystem Digest, August 10 - August 23, 2025

[COMPARE Ecosystem]

COMPARE Ecosystem Digest, August 10 - August 23, 2025

Here’s what you may have missed last week and what’s coming up soon!
New learning environments and hardware designs have been added to robot-manipulation.org, IEEE CASE 2025 and TAROS 2025 are this week, and IHO 2025 is later this month!

🤖 Latest additions to robot-manipulation.org:

• Software Components:

• Learning: Learning Environments: 3 new entries (24 total); see the repository for more details

• DexArt
• Factory
• PartGym

• Hardware Designs: 8 new entries (32 total); see the repository for more details

• 9DTact [tactile sensors]
• Amazing Hand [end-effectors]
• Armada [arms]
• Grasp EveryThing (GET) [end-effectors, tactile sensors]
• Insight [tactile sensors]
• Koch v1.1 [arms]
• Thor Arm [arms]
• ToddlerBot [arms, humanoids]

• 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?

• IEEE CASE 2025 and TAROS 2025 are this 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 below, see the linked repositories for more details

• 2025 IEEE CASE Hackathon, August 17, 2025
• Embodied AI for Robot-Powered Manufacturing Systems, August 17, 2025
• Robust Machine Intelligence for Factory Automation, August 21, 2025
• Generative Physical AI for Robotics, August 21, 2025
• The Future of Work in the Age of Robotics and AI, August 21, 2025

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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.
• COMPARE Community Facilitator, Adam Norton, will be attending the first two days of the conference; shoot him a message if you want to meet up!

• 
  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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