[COMPARE] Ecosystem Digest, September 14 - September 27, 2025

[COMPARE Ecosystem]

COMPARE Ecosystem Digest, September 14 - September 27, 2025

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

New discussions in the COMPARE Slack for grasp planners in ROS and the availability of YCB subsets, new hardware designs, leaderboards, and workshops added to robot-manipulation.org, CoRL starts this weekend, and Humanoids starts next week!

💬 Recent discussions in the :

• #software_grasp-planning: For which grasp planners are there ROS packages available? (ideally ROS 2, but ROS 1 works, too) [link]

• #benchmarking_objects-artifacts: YCB Object Subsets: Interested in acquiring only a portion of YCB objects ($300) instead of the whole kit ($1400)? [link]

• 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:

• Hardware Designs: 5 new entries added (36 total): see the repository for more details!
  
• AirExo-2 [data collection hardware, arms]
• DOGlove [data collection hardware]
• LEGATO Gripper [data collection hardware, end-effectors]
• OpenArm [arms]
• R-Tac Sensor [tactile sensors]

• Benchmarking: Leaderboards: new leaderboard launched for In-Hand Manipulation!
  
• The Robotic Grasping and Manipulation Competition (RGMC) features a track for in-hand manipulation. Scores from the last two years of the competition are now logged in a dedicated leaderboard featuring the performance of XL Team (Tsinghua University, China), AI & ROBOT LAB (Tsinghua University, China), and Team GL-HPBot2 (Zhejiang University, China).

• Events: Workshops: 
• The 7th UK Robot Manipulation Workshop, January 6-7, 2026, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

• 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?

  and  are co-located in Seoul, South Korea!

• CoRL 2025: Conference on Robot Learning 2025, September 27-30, 2025. The following robot manipulation workshops will be held on Saturday, September 27th; see our Workshops page for more info!
• Eval&Deploy: Evaluation and Deployment Across the Robot Learning Lifecycle
• Open-Source Hardware in the Era of Robot Learning
• Making Sense of Data in Robotics: Composition, Curation, and Interpretability at Scale
• 2nd Workshop on Dexterous Manipulation: Learning and Control with Diverse Modalities
• Workshop on Robotics World Modeling
• Learning to Simulate Robot Worlds
• Workshop on Generalizable Priors for Robot Manipulation
• Beyond Rigid Worlds: Representing and Interacting with Non-Rigid Objects Workshop
• Workshop on Generalist Policies In the Wild & RoboArena Challenge
• 3rd Workshop on Learning Effective Abstractions for Planning (LEAP)

• Humanoids 2025: IEEE-RAS 24th International Conference on Humanoid Robots 2025, September 30 - October 2, 2025. The following robot manipulation workshops will be held on Thursday, October 2nd; see our Workshops page for more info!
• Advances in Contact-rich Robotics: Rich Tactile-based Physical Interaction (ConRich Workshop)
• Dexterous Humanoid Manipulation Workshop
• Realizing Humanoid Robot Standards: The Bridge from Research to Industry

• Coming up next month in October! 
• Northeast Robotics Colloquium (NERC) 2025, October 11, 2025, Ithaca, New York, USA
• IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2025, October 19-25, 2025, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China; check out our Workshops page to see the 15 robot manipulation workshops being held it IROS 2025!

🤖 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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