[COMPARE] Ecosystem Digest, May 18 - May 31, 2025

[COMPARE Ecosystem]

COMPARE Ecosystem Digest, May 18 - May 31, 2025

🤖 Hello COMPARErs! Last week was ICRA 2025 in Atlanta, GA, USA, where we promoted the COMPARE project quite a bit. If you've joined us since then, welcome! Most of the below updates came out of the conference, with many more to come as we digest the multitude of relevant robot manipulation research presented.

The entire* COMPARE team at ICRA 2025 (pay no attention to the floating heads...)

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

🤖 Recent discussions in the COMPARE Slack workspace:

• #software_general: How should frameworks (e.g., MoveIt, mjpl) be included in the COMPARE ecosystem? [link]; ROS 2 Compatible Hardware from PickNik [link]
• #software_learning: Recent release of RoboManipBaselines version 2.0 [link]
• #software_motion_planning: Should a repository of IK solvers be included in the COMPARE ecosystem [link]
• #software_simulation: Community input on the use of MuJoCo for robot manipulation [link]

• We encourage everyone to engage in these discussions and to start your own! Make a post for a new topic in its respective channel or reply in threads to each post to participate.

🤖 Latest additions to robot-manipulation.org:

• We came across a lot of great open-source and benchmarking research at ICRA that we'll soon be adding to our repositories. Have suggestions for open-source products or benchmarking assets to add? Use this Google Form to let us know! 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?

• Submission deadline for short papers to the COMPARE workshop being held at RSS 2025 was extended to Friday, May 30, 2025! Benchmarking Robot Manipulation: Improving Interoperability and Modularity

• CVPR 2025 is next month! The IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2025 will be held in Nashville, TN, USA on June 11-15, 2025

• 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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