[COMPARE] Ecosystem Digest, April 12 - April 26, 2025

[COMPARE Ecosystem]

COMPARE Ecosystem Digest, April 13 - April 26, 2025

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

🤖 Latest additions to robot-manipulation.org:

• Software Components
• Grasp Planning
• NEW parameters added to Grasp Planners repository for Simulators, Backbone, and Metric(s) Used
• Several parameters that were missing across the Grasp Planners and Grasp Datasets repositories have also been filled in
• Hardware Designs
• Repository launching very soon!
• Have suggestions for open-source products or benchmarking assets to add? use this Google Form to let us know! https://forms.gle/LHrtmDpm82X4qrDk6

• Events
• Webinars: Dexterity for Humanoids, Webinar Panel (May 8, 2025, 12-1pm US Central Time)
• 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-RAS International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft) 2025, April 23 - 26, 2025, Lausanne, Switzerland
• Benchmarking Robot Manipulation: Improving Interoperability and Modularity (RSS 2025 Workshop): Early submission deadline April 25, 2025
• Robothon Grand Challenge at automatica 2025: Kick-off Meeting April 28, 2025; Competition Working Period April 28 - May 28, 2025
• Subscribe to the Robot Manipulation Events Google Calendar to stay in the loop!

The COMPARE Slack and website were soft launched recently, promoted mostly to our internal network. Please share the links to join the Slack or Google Group with your colleagues who might be interested! We will be promoting it over robotics-worldwide and LinkedIn in early May.

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Adam Norton, Community Facilitator, COMPARE Ecosystem

Improving Open-Source and Benchmarking for Robot Manipulation

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