[COMPARE] Ecosystem Digest, April 20 - May 3, 2025

[COMPARE Ecosystem]

COMPARE Ecosystem Digest, April 20 - May 3, 2025

The COMPARE Slack, Google Group, and website will be hard launching next week! Keep an eye out for our promotions over robotics-worldwide, LinkedIn, and ROS Discourse. Please share the links to join the Slack or Google Group with your colleagues who might be interested! Help us improve the COMPARE project and spread the word!

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

🤖 Latest additions to robot-manipulation.org:

• Events: Workshops
• New England Manipulation Symposium (NEMS) 2025, June 6, 2025, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
• Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) 2025, Los Angeles, California, USA
• Workshop on Human-Robot Contact and Manipulation, June 21, 2025
• Mobile Manipulation: Emerging Opportunities & Contemporary Challenges, June 21, 2025
  
• R3: Reasoning for Robust Robot Manipulation in the Open World, June 21, 2025
  
• Structured World Models for Robotic Manipulation, June 21, 2025
  
• Benchmarking Robot Manipulation: Improving Interoperability and Modularity, June 25, 2025
  
• 3rd Workshop on Dexterous Manipulation: Learning and Control with Diverse Data, June 25, 2025
  
• Gaussian Representations for Robot Autonomy: Challenges and Opportunities, June 25, 2025
  
• Navigating Contact Dynamics in Robotics, June 25, 2025
  
• Robot Evaluation for the Real World, June 25, 2025
  
• Workshop on Whole-body Control and Bimanual Manipulation: Applications in Humanoids and Beyond, June 25, 2025
  
• Have suggestions for events we should add? use this Google Form to let us know! https://forms.gle/PfiSRjcuQnavbPNS9

• Have suggestions for open-source products or benchmarking assets to add? use this Google Form to let us know! https://forms.gle/LHrtmDpm82X4qrDk6

🤖 What's coming up soon?

• Robothon Grand Challenge at automatica 2025: Kick-off Meeting April 28, 2025; Competition Working Period April 28 - May 28, 2025
• Dexterity for Humanoids, Webinar Panel: May 8, 2025, 12-1pm (US Central Time)
• Subscribe to the Robot Manipulation Events Google Calendar to stay in the loop!

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Adam Norton, Community Facilitator, COMPARE Ecosystem

Improving Open-Source and Benchmarking for Robot Manipulation

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