[COMPARE] Ecosystem Digest, September 21 - October 4, 2025

[COMPARE Ecosystem]

COMPARE Ecosystem Digest, September 21 - October 4, 2025

Hello COMPARErs! We just returned from this year’s CoRL and Humanoids conferences held in Seoul, Korea. If you’ve recently learned about and joined the COMPARE Ecosystem through these events, welcome! Expect more additions to our repositories over the next several weeks and we encourage you to submit your own material, too. As you can see, we’ve revised the COMPARE Ecosystem Digest format and from here on out will be posting bi-weekly. Keep the source open and mark that bench!

Here’s what you may have missed last week and what’s coming up soon: Several new discussion topics around open-source software, new grasp planners and simulators added, perception repositories under construction, and NERC 2025 and IROS 2025 are coming up! 💬 = recent discussions in the 🤖 = recent additions to

Open-Source Software Components 💬 #software_general:  Should each entry in the COMPARE repos note in what OS and/or ROS version it was recently built successfully? [discussion] New tutorial for a full bin picking solution in Isaac Sim, ROS, and ManyMove from Marco Pastorio [LinkedIn] New manipulation pipeline leveraging Isaac Sim, ROS 2, cuRobo, and BehaviorTree.CPP from ElSayed ElSheikh [GitHub] 💬 #random: Official software support for the Franka Emika Panda (pre-FR3) has discontinued; which path would you recommend for leveraging ROS: (a) ROS 1 Noetic + ros1_bridge, (b) community ROS 2 port, or (b) upgrade the hardware/firmware? [discussion] Grasp Planning 💬 #software_grasp-planning: For which grasp planners are there ROS packages available? (ideally ROS 2, but ROS 1 works, too) [discussion] 🤖 Grasp Planners: 4 new entries:  3DAPNet: 3DAPNet is a new method for affordance-pose joint learning. Given the captured 3D point cloud of an object and a set of affordance labels conveyed through natural language texts, our objective is to jointly produce both the relevant affordance regions and the appropriate pose configurations that facilitate the affordances. 7DGCG: 7DGCG is a method that generates 7-DoF grasps (6D pose + opening width) in dense clutters, where full opening of the gripper might not be achievable due to space constraints. DexDiffuser: DexDiffuser, a novel dexterous grasping method that generates, evaluates, and refines grasps on partial object point clouds DexGrasp Anything: DexGrasp Anything is a method that effectively integrates physical constraints into both the training and sampling phases of a diffusion-based generative model for multi-finger dexterous hand grasp generation, achieving state-of-the-art performance across nearly all open datasets. Perception 💬 #software_perception: ROS 2 service-based interface for Meta’s Segment Anything 2 (SAM2) that can be run in a local environment or built as a Docker container [GitHub] 🤖 We’re currently building repositories for three core perception components: Segmentation, Object Detection, and Pose Estimation. Have recommendations on what we should include? [submission form] Simulation 🤖 Simulators: 2 new entries: MultiVerse: Decentralized Simulation Framework designed to integrate multiple advanced physics engines along with various photo-realistic graphics engines to simulate everything. Webots: Webots is an open source and multi-platform desktop application used to simulate robots. It provides a complete development environment to model, program and simulate robots. It has been designed for a professional use, and it is widely used in industry, education and research.

Open-Source Hardware Designs 💬 #hardware_designs: CHILD (Controller for Humanoid Imitation and Live Demonstration): a Whole-Body Humanoid Teleoperation System [project page]

Benchmarking 💬 #benchmarking_general: V2 of CloudGripper – the open-source cloud robotics testbed for remote robotic manipulation research – is on its way! The system is hosted at KTH in Sweden, globally accessible, and features 32 small robot arms workcells, 8 industrial arms, datasets of thousands of hours of real world robot-object interaction data, and full MIT open-source software and hardware design [project page]

Events What’s coming up soon? NERC 2025: Northeast Robotics Colloquium (NERC) 2025, October 11, 2025, Ithaca, NY, USA IROS 2025: IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2025, October 19-25, 2025, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China; check out the following Competitions and Workshops related to robot manipulation and see the linked repos for more information: October 19, 2025 [1 competition] AgiBot World Challenge October 20, 2025 [10 workshops] RObotic MAnipulation of Deformable Objects (ROMADO 2025) Benchmarking in Soft Robotics Towards Community-driven Standards for Simulations, Sensing, and Control Perception and Planning for Mobile Manipulation in Changing Environments Frontiers in Dynamic, Intelligent, and Adaptive Multi-Arm Manipulation Benchmarking via Competitions in Robotic Grasping and Manipulation – 2nd Edition Tactile Sensing Toward Robot Dexterity and Intelligence Robotic Fine Manipulation: Integrating Tactile, Visual, and Intelligent Control Intelligent Robotics: Harnessing Embodied Intelligence and Learning for Next-Generation Manipulation Robot Learning From Human Teleoperation: Prospects and Challenges 4th Workshop on Mobile Manipulation and Embodied Intelligence (MOMA.v4): Towards Next-Gen Mobile Manipulation with Modularity, Reconfiguration, and Generalisation October 24, 2025 [5 workshops] SPACE: Semantic Planning of robotic Agents in Collaborative Environments Bimanual Manipulation: Advancing Human-Humanoid Interaction and Collaboration Beyond R,r,reply- Articles: Towards Evidence Based Measurable Robotics Research Contact and Impact-Aware Manipulation (CIM25) RoDGE: Robotic Data Generation and Evaluation: Bridging Simulation and Real-World Deployment 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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