[COMPARE] RSS Workshop: Early Deadline TODAY! April 25, 2025

[COMPARE Ecosystem]

Today, April 25, 2025, is the first deadline for our upcoming workshop at RSS 2025!

Benchmarking Robot Manipulation: Improving Interoperability and Modularity 

https://www.robot-manipulation.org/events/workshops/rss-2025

April 25, 2025, 23:59 Anywhere on Earth: Early submission deadline for short papers to ensure decision by RSS 2025 early registration deadline (April 30)

Short papers (2-4 pages following RSS guidelines; anonymization is not required) are sought to be presented as lightning talks followed by poster presentations. The workshop is structured around two main topics:

• Interoperability and Modularity: Even though research labs often focus on a specific aspect of robotic manipulation (e.g., perception, planning, learning), they still need to implement the whole software pipeline to conduct experimental analysis. We will discuss how to reduce such a development burden via modular coding practices that would allow for manipulation pipelines that are reusable across research contexts.

• Benchmarking Robot Manipulation: Protocols and tools that are widely accepted by the community are needed to enable systematic experimental analysis. We will discuss how to enable reliable quantified performance analysis in manipulation research and examine successful examples both in robotics and neighboring fields.

Submissions should be e-mailed to compare....@gmail.com with the text “[RSS 2025 Workshop]” in the subject line. Authors of accepted submissions are encouraged to upload their papers to arXiv.org; they will also be hosted on a publicly accessible Google Drive folder and linked on the workshop website along with presentation slides and videos of presentations.

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Adam Norton, Community Facilitator, COMPARE Ecosystem

Improving Open-Source and Benchmarking for Robot Manipulation

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