[COMPARE] Ecosystem Digest, July 6 - July 19, 2025

[COMPARE Ecosystem]

COMPARE Ecosystem Digest, July 6 - July 19, 2025

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

🤖 We're building new repositories for Motion Planning Datasets and Simulation Models and Descriptions!

• Based on recent discussions in the COMPARE Slack, we're starting to build two new repositories: (1) datasets to use for benchmarking motion planning and (2) repos and conversion tools for robot models and scene descriptions used in simulators. Have suggestions on assets we should include? Use this Google Form to let us know! https://forms.gle/LHrtmDpm82X4qrDk6
  

🤖 Recent discussions in the COMPARE Slack!

• #benchmarking_datasets: Looking for insight regarding synthetic datasets for training: [1] what specific robotics problems suffer from a lack of good vision training data? [2] what new training datasets do you think would be most useful to the robotics community in general? [3] what new training datasets would be useful for your specific research? [link]
  
  

• #software_simulation: Converting between MuJoCo files (MCJF) files to Isaac Sim files (USD): MJCF2USD from Lightwheel is a user-friendly tool that enables seamless conversion of MuJoCo simulation files to USD format, making it easy to integrate MuJoCo models into Omniverse workflows and other USD-compatible applications [link]
  
  

🤖 Latest additions to robot-manipulation.org:

• Many more additions are on their way as we digest the material presented at ICRA, CVPR, RSS, UR, and ISER. Come across any new open-source products or benchmarking assets that should be added? 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?

• World Robot Summit (WRS) 2025: Future Convenience Store Challenge (FCSC) is this week! Osaka, Japan, July 13 - 19, 2025
  

• RoboCup 2025: Autonomous Robot Manipulation (ARM) Challenge is this week! Salvador, Brazil, July 15 - 21, 2025
  
  

• 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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