[COMPARE] Ecosystem Digest, July 13 - July 26, 2025

[COMPARE Ecosystem]

COMPARE Ecosystem Digest, July 13 - July 26, 2025

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

🤖 Recent discussions in the COMPARE Slack:

• #software_simulation: What is your simulator of choice? We are trying to identify the most commonly used / useful simulation environments with a Slack poll, especially regarding how accurately  it simulates contact physics [link]Not part of the COMPARE Slack? Please email compare....@gmail.com with your thoughts! Responses thus far: MuJoCo, Gazebo, Isaac Sim, PyBullet, Drake, RoboDK, Siemens Technomatix / Process Simulate, Visual Components, Unity 3D.
  

🤖 Latest additions to robot-manipulation.org:

• Events: New workshops for the Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) 2025 and competition for the International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids) 2025, which are both co-located in Seoul, South Korea!

• Workshops at CoRL 2025 on September 27, 2025
  
  
• 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)

• Competitions at Humanoids 2025 on September 30 - October 1, 2025
  
  
• Humanoids 2025 Robot Competition

• Have suggestions for open-source products or benchmarking assets that should be added? Submit them here: https://forms.gle/LHrtmDpm82X4qrDk6 
• Are we missing any upcoming events? Use this Google Form to let us know! https://forms.gle/PfiSRjcuQnavbPNS9
  

🤖 What's coming up soon?

• CASE 2025, TAROS 2025, and IHO25 are next month!
• IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE) 2025, August 17 - 21, 2025 in Los Angeles, CA, USA
  
  

• Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS) 2025, August 20 - 22, 2025 in York, UK
  TAROS will feature a special Session organized by ARIA publishing a new strategy on Modularity and Interoperability for Robotics and Autonomous Systems! More info here.
  
  

• International Humanoid Olympiad 2025 (IHO25), August 29 - September 2, 2025 in Olympia, Greece
  
  

• 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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