[COMPARE] Ecosystem digest, April 27 - May 10, 2025

[COMPARE Ecosystem]

COMPARE Ecosystem Digest, April 27 - May 10, 2025

The COMPARE Slack, Google Group, and website will be hard launching this week! Keep an eye out for our promotions over robotics-worldwide, LinkedIn, and ROS Discourse. Please share the links to join the Slack or Google Group with your colleagues who might be interested! Help us improve the COMPARE Ecosystem and spread the word!

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

🤖 Latest additions to robot-manipulation.org:

• Software Components
• Grasp Planners: New parameter added! Camera Position(s): the camera view(s) used by the planner on or off the robot to plan its grasp on objects (e.g., Eye-in-hand, Oblique view, Overhead view)

• Hardware Designs
• New repository launched! 19 entries to date, focusing on open-source hardware available for robot manipulation including: Arms (e.g., TidyBot++), End-effectors (LEAP Hand), Tactile sensors (e.g., GelSlim), and more!
• Organized by the following parameters: Type, Cost (USD), Available to Purchase, ROS Package, Simulator / URDF, Link(s), License, Maintainer(s), Citation, Year (Initial Release)

• 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?

• Dexterity for Humanoids, Webinar Panel: May 8, 2025, 12-1pm (US Central Time)

• ICRA 2025 is coming up fast! May 19 - 23. 2025 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA
• Nine workshops are being held relevant to robot grasping, manipulation, dexterity, software, mechanisms, and more! See our Workshops repo for more information.
• Seven competitions on robot manipulation are being held including the four tracks of the Robotic Grasping and Manipulation Competition (RGMC)! See our Competitions repo for more information.
• The Outstanding Women in Robotics & Automation (WiRA) Paper Awards will present a Student Paper Award and Early Career Contribution Award! Sponsored by the Advanced Research + Invention Agency (ARIA).

• 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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