[COMPARE] Ecosystem Digest, June 8 - June 21, 2025

[COMPARE Ecosystem]

COMPARE Ecosystem Digest, June 8 - June 21, 2025

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

🤖 Recent discussions in the COMPARE Slack workspace:

• #benchmarking_objects-artifacts: Toward YCB 2.0: a worldwide community-based dataset for robotics: a pitch for a new "local" YCB object set that makes for easier replication around the globe [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:

• Hardware Designs:
• AnySkin: AnySkin is a skin sensor made for robotic touch that is easy to assemble, compatible with different robot end-effectors and generalizes to new skin instances. It is built on the simplistic design of ReSkin, and decoupling the sensing electronics from the sensing interface. AnySkin senses contact through distortions in magnetic field generated by magnetized iron particles in the sensing surface. The flexible surface is physically separated from its electronics, which allows for easy replaceability when damaged.
• EN02-OP: Open Source 3-Finger End-Effector created by Westwood Robotics. A very simple yet versital 7DoF design, enabling the end-effector to change into the best poses for all kinds of items.
  

• CVPR 2025 was last week! 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?

• Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) 2025 starts this weekend! Los Angeles, CA, USA, June 21-25, 2025
  
  
• Saturday, June 21, 2025
• Workshop on Human-Robot Contact and Manipulation
• Mobile Manipulation: Emerging Opportunities & Contemporary Challenges
• R3: Reasoning for Robust Robot Manipulation in the Open World
• Structured World Models for Robotic Manipulation
• Wednesday, June 25, 2025
• Benchmarking Robot Manipulation: Improving Interoperability and Modularity (COMPARE Ecosystem Workshop)
• 3rd Workshop on Dexterous Manipulation: Learning and Control with Diverse Data
• Gaussian Representations for Robot Autonomy: Challenges and Opportunities
• Navigating Contact Dynamics in Robotics
• Robot Evaluation for the Real World
• Workshop on Whole-body Control and Bimanual Manipulation: Applications in Humanoids and Beyond

• Ubiquitous Robots (UR) 2025 is in two weeks! College Station, TX, USA, June 30 - July 2, 2025
  
  
• Monday, June 30, 2025
• Virtual Environment-Based Synthetic Data Generation for Robotic Training
• Symbiosis or Separation? Revisiting the Interface of Robot Learning and HRI

• 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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