[COMPARE] Ecosystem Digest, May 11 - May 24, 2025

[COMPARE Ecosystem]

COMPARE Ecosystem Digest, May 11 - May 24, 2025

(dates fixed; apologies for double posting)

🤖 Hello COMPARErs! Last week we officially launched Robot-Manipulation.org! Thank you to everyone who has shared the link, joined our Slack and Google Group, and submitted assets and events to be included in our repositories. 

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

🤖 Latest additions to robot-manipulation.org:

• Software Components: Motion Planners: RAPid and Robust Trajectory Optimization for Robots (RAPTOR)
• Hardware Designs: PAROL6 Robotic Arm PAROL6, SSG48 Adaptive Electric Gripper

• 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?

• ICRA 2025 is this week! May 19 - 23. 2025 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA
• Nine workshops, seven competitions are being held relevant to robot grasping, manipulation, dexterity, software, mechanisms, and more, as well as MANY regular paper sessions on manipulation, grasping, and perception! 
• You can find the COMPARE team at the Workshop on Robot Software Architectures (RSA25), Late Breaking Results, Robotic Grasping and Manipulation Competition (RGMC) 2025, and more! Our team members are also chairing regular paper sessions on Legged Robots, Perception for Manipulation, Human-Robot Interaction, and Grasping, plus multiple papers presented by our team of students and postdocs.
• If you want to meet up, message @Adam Norton in the COMPARE Slack!

• Submission deadline for short papers to the COMPARE workshop being held at RSS 2025 is this Friday, May 23, 2025! Benchmarking Robot Manipulation: Improving Interoperability and Modularity

• 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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