[COMPARE] Ecosystem digest, May 4 - May 17, 2025

[COMPARE Ecosystem]

COMPARE Ecosystem Digest, May 4 - May 17, 2025

The COMPARE Slack, Google Group, and website will be hard launching TOMORROW! 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: PointNet++ Grasping
• Grasp Datasets: GraspClutter6D, MetaGraspNetV2, OCID_Grasp Dataset, PointNet++ Grasping
  

• 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 next week! May 19 - 23. 2025 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA
• Nine workshops and seven competitions are being held relevant to robot grasping, manipulation, dexterity, software, mechanisms, and more! 
• Come say hello! Here's a sampling of where you can find members of the COMPARE team at ICRA throughout the week:
• Monday, 5/19: 
• Workshop on Robot Software Architectures (RSA25): Brian Flynn and Adam Norton, "Developing Modular Grasping and Manipulation Pipeline Infrastructure to Streamline Performance Benchmarking"
• Tuesday, 5/20: 
• Late Breaking Results 1: Adam Norton, Kostas Bekris, Berk Calli, Aaron Dollar, Yu Sun, and Holly Yanco, "Towards Improving Open-Source and Benchmarking for Robot Manipulation"
• Identification and Estimation for Legged Robots Session: Kostas Bekris (Co-Chair)
• Wednesday, 5/21: 
• Robotic Grasping and Manipulation Competition (RGMC) 2025: Yu Sun and Berk Calli (co-organizers)
• Thursday, 5/22: 
• Perception for Manipulation 1 Session: Berk Calli (Chair)
• Assistive Human-Robot Interaction Session: Holly Yanco (Chair)
• Grasping 3 Session: Yu Sun (Chair)
• Friday, 5/23: 
• Workshop on Supporting Reproducibility in Soft Robotics: A Community Discussion: Adam Norton, "Reproducing 'Rigid' Robot Manipulation: Current Practices, Open Issues, and Lessons Learned"
  
• Plus multiple paper presentations throughout the week from our team of students and postdocs!
• If you want to meet up, message @Adam Norton in the COMPARE Slack!

• 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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