[COMPARE] Ecosystem Digest, November 16 - November 29, 2025

[COMPARE Ecosystem]

COMPARE Ecosystem Digest, November 16 - November 29, 2025
Here’s what you may have missed and what’s coming up soon: New open-source grasp planners, hardware designs, and datasets added to robot-manipulation.org, a new grasping in clutter task was added to ManipulationNet, and NeurIPS 2025 is this week! 💬 = recent discussions in the 🤖 = recent additions to
Open-Source Software Components Grasp Planning 🤖 Grasp Planners: 4 new entries (56 total): Equivariant Volumetric Grasping [3D volumetric equivariant backbone, 6 DoF grasp, 2-finger gripper, cluttered objects] GraspMolmo [task oriented grasping with language instruction, 6 DoF grasp, 2-finger gripper, packed objects] GraspQP [analytical and optimization-based grasp generation, training-free, any gripper model, singulated objects] GraspVLA [VLA for grasping, foundation model, RGB input, 2-finger gripper, 6 DoF grasp, packed and singulated objects]
Open-Source Hardware Designs 🤖 Hardware Designs: 6 new entries (46 total):
DexUMI [data collection hardware]
DexWild-System [data collection hardware]
FastUMI [data collection hardware]
K-bot [humanoids]
MagiClaw [data collection hardware]
Minsight [tactile sensor]
Benchmarking 💬 #benchmarking: ManipulationNet adds grasping in clutter task!  The Grasping in Clutter Benchmark requires the robotic system to reliably grasp a diverse set of objects from the tabletop. The task requires robust perceptual, planning, and manipulation skills to handle real-world variations in object shape, pose, and physical properties, aiming to achieve stable and successful grasps under uncertainty.  [Slack thread link]
Datasets 🤖 Object Datasets: 1 new entry (16 total): Infinigen-Articulated Dataset: 20k+ high quality articulated object assets generated using the open-source toolkit Infinigen-Articulated (previously called Infinigen-Sim)
Events What’s coming up soon? NeurIPS 2025: The 39th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2-7, 2025, San Diego, California, USA WRS 2025: World Robot Summit, Manufacturing Robotics Challenge, December 12-14, 2025, Aichi, Japan Subscribe to the Robot Manipulation Events Google Calendar to stay in the loop!
🤖 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 form to let us know! https://forms.gle/PfiSRjcuQnavbPNS9

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Adam Norton, Community Facilitator, COMPARE Ecosystem

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