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Alessio Xompero @axompi.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

📢 𝘈 𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘵𝘰𝘰𝘭 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘢𝘧𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 What is Affordance Prediction? Affordance prediction is the identification of potential actions an agent can perform on a target object from multimodal inputs. #AffordanceSheet #AI #Reproducibility #Transparency

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Alessio Xompero @axompi.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Less than 2 days left to submit your work at our workshop (Track 2)! 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐁𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐡𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐟 𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐩𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: 𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐀𝐝𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐀𝐈 𝐭𝐨 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐝 𝐇𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐢𝐝 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 📆1 October 📍 Pittsburgh, PA, USA IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. Intelligent Robots and Systems #IROS2026

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Alessio Xompero @axompi.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Last day to submit your contribution, 2-page Extended Abstract of unpublished and on-going work, to our hashtag#IROS2026 workshop 👇 Deadline: September 7 at 11:59 PM AoE See details here: sites.google.com/view/rgmcw2026

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Alessio Xompero @axompi.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Less than a week to submit your contributions to our workshop at #IROS2026 Submission deadlines * 7 September: Extended Abstracts * 10 September: Abstracts (Published Works) Submit here: cmt3.research.microsoft.com/RGMCW2026

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Alessio Xompero @axompi.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Deadline has been extended 👇 𝗥𝗲𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗕𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗵𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗳 𝗥𝗼𝗯𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝘀𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗽𝘂𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: 𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗔𝗱𝘃𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗱 𝗔𝗜 𝘁𝗼 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘇𝗲𝗱 𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗼𝗶𝗱 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 Workshop at IEEE/RSJ Int. Conference. on Intelligent Robots and Systems #IROS2026 #benchmarking #AI #robotics #humanoid #embeddedAI #PhysicalAI

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Alessio Xompero @axompi.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

🚀 The 12th Robotic Grasping and Manipulation Competition is on its way! 📢 Call for Expressions of Interest Want to sponsor the competition? 👉 Fill out the form: forms.gle/2L5wGAVPst51... Want to participate in the next RGMC? 👉Fill out the form: forms.gle/Kmax5r4WYZaH... #RGMC #Competition

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Alessio Xompero @axompi.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Less than a month to submit your contributions to our #IROS2026 Workshop! 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐁𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐡𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐟 𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐩𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: 𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐀𝐝𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐀𝐈 𝐭𝐨 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐝 𝐇𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐢𝐝 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems 📆1 October 📍 Pittsburgh, PA, USA

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Alessio Xompero @axompi.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

📢 Call for Contributions 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐁𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐡𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐟 𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐩𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: 𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐀𝐝𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐀𝐈 𝐭𝐨 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐝 𝐇𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐢𝐝 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘱 𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 2026 𝘐𝘌𝘌𝘌/𝘙𝘚𝘑 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘰𝘯 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘙𝘰𝘣𝘰𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘚𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘴 #IROS2026 📆1 October 📍 Pittsburgh, PA, USA

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Alessio Xompero @axompi.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Innovating or doing research on robotic #grasping and #manipulation? 🤖 Our 𝐓𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 on 𝑨𝒅𝒗𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑹𝒐𝒃𝒐𝒕𝒊𝒄 𝑮𝒓𝒂𝒔𝒑𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑴𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒑𝒖𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑹𝒆𝒂𝒍-𝑾𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅 in 𝘈𝘶𝘵𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘮𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘙𝘰𝘣𝘰𝘵𝘴 (Springer Nature) is accepting submissions on a rolling-based until March 1, 2027. #AI #Robotics #AutonomousRobots

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Alessio Xompero @axompi.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Dive into the summary of our Robotic Grasping and Manipulation Competition track on Human-to-Robot Handovers of Unknown Containers with Unknown Content, which happened in Vienna at the 2026 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

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Alessio Xompero @axompi.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Last week’s @ieeeras.bsky.social International Conference on Robotics and Automation (#ICRA) in Vienna was astonishing. As an organizer of the 11th Robotic Grasping and Manipulation Competition (#RGMC), I led the Human-to-Robot Handovers track (3rd consecutive year). sites.google.com/view/rgmcomp

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Alessio Xompero @axompi.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Can your robot perform manipulations, including planar pushing and deformable object control, using the CloudGripper platform? Apply to the Cloud Robotics track (remote only) 11th Robotic Grasping and Manipulation Competition (RGMC) #ICRA2026

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Alessio Xompero @axompi.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Can your robot autonomously navigate between multiple workstations, perform precise docking, and execute an industrially inspired assembly task? Apply to the Mobile Manipulation track 11th Robotic Grasping and Manipulation Competition (RGMC) #ICRA2026

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Alessio Xompero @axompi.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Can your robot estimate object properties and safely receive items handed by humans, then deliver them to target locations 🫱🥤🤖? Apply to Human-to-Robot Handovers 11th Robotic Grasping and Manipulation Competition (RGMC) #ICRA2026

The Human-to-Robot Handover track at RGMC 2026 challenges teams to enable robots to safely receive unknown containers with unknown filling from human hands and deliver them to target locations.

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Alessio Xompero @axompi.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Can your robot pick a mix of known and unknown objects randomly placed inside a transparent box and place them into another box within a specified time limit and with a predefined grasping order? Apply to Picking from Clutter 11th Robotic Grasping and Manipulation Competition (RGMC) #ICRA2026

RGMC 10 at ICRA 2025: Picking from Clutter demonstration

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Alessio Xompero @axompi.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Can your robot receive a set of unknown containers with unknown filling handed over by a person 🫱🥤🤖? Join our 𝘏𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯-𝘵𝘰-𝘙𝘰𝘣𝘰𝘵 𝘏𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘬 within the 11th Robotic Grasping and Manipulation #competition #RGMC11 IEEE/RAS Int. Conf. Robotics & Automation #ICRA2026 📍Vienna, Austria 📆 June 1-5

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Alessio Xompero @axompi.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

How can we further improve the perception for a robotic arm that can receive unknown objects handed over by a person 🫱🥤🤖? Next week Yik will present our work at the 2025 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems in Hangzhou, China #IROS2025

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arxiv cs.CV @arxiv-cs-cv.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Alina Elena Baia, Alessio Xompero, Andrea Cavallaro Zero-shot image privacy classification with Vision-Language Models arxiv.org/abs/2510.09253

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arXiv cs.CV Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition @cscv-bot.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Alina Elena Baia, Alessio Xompero, Andrea Cavallaro: Zero-shot image privacy classification with Vision-Language Models arxiv.org/abs/2510.09253 arxiv.org/pdf/2510.09253 arxiv.org/html/2510.09253

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Alessio Xompero @axompi.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Join us next week at the #workshop on 𝐁𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐡𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐯𝐢𝐚 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐩𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 at #IROS2025 in Hangzhou, China! 𝐎𝐫𝐠𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐫𝐬 S. D'Avella, A. Xompero, C. Oh, A. Cavallaro, K. Hang, B. Calli, Y. Sun #robotics #AI #grasping #manipulation #handover #benchmarking #competitions

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Alessio Xompero @axompi.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Robotic Grasping & Manipulation Competition at the 2024 IEEE/RAS International Conference on Robotics & Automation Y. Sun, B. Calli, K. Kimble, F. wyffels, V. De Gusseme, K. Hang, S. D’Avella, A. Xompero, A. Cavallaro, M. A. Roa, J. Avendano, A. Mavrommati IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, 2024

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Alessio Xompero @axompi.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Last day left! Submit title, abstract, and a link to the paper of your published work to present it as a poster if accepted and fitting the workshop Deadline: 30 Sep, 23.59 AoE (<24 h)

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Alessio Xompero @axompi.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

"Stereo Hand-Object Reconstruction for Human-to-Robot Handover" Y. L. Pang, A. Xompero, C. Oh, A. Cavallaro IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Vol.10, n.6, June 2025 📝Article: doi.org/10.1109/LRA.... #robotics #ai #computervision #handover #grasping #manipulation #3Dreconstruction

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Alessio Xompero @axompi.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

2 days left to submit your the abstract of your published work and present it as a poster in our hashtag#IROS2025 workshop 👇 Click on the link in the comment to know more

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Alessio Xompero @axompi.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

🎬Demo videos from the teams that participated to the 10th Robotic Grasping and Manipulation Competition (RGMC) 🤖 at the 2025 IEEE/RAS International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) in Atlanta, US are now available! #robotics #ai #grasping #manipulation #handover #competition

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Thank you for joining the 10th RGMC at ICRA 2025! The videos from the winning teams are available here We would like to thank our sponsors:

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Alessio Xompero @axompi.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Join our workshop and discussion on 𝐁𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐡𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐯𝐢𝐚 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐩𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 at #IROS2025 If you have a published work (journal/conference paper) relevant to the workshop, submit title, abstract, and link to our track for Abstracts: cmt3.research.microsoft.com/RGMCW2025/

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Alessio Xompero @axompi.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Deadline for Extended Abstracts has been postponed to 30 August! Submit your contributions to our workshop in IROS 2025

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Alessio Xompero @axompi.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Join the discussions on the current and future challenges of autonomous robotic grasping and manipulation for real-world applications. #IROS2025 workshop: 𝐁𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐡𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐯𝐢𝐚 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐩𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 - 2𝐧𝐝 𝐄𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 More info: sites.google.com/view/iros202...

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Alessio Xompero @axompi.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

The 25th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium was a great event with inspiring keynotes and presentations: from future challenges of Internet censorship to studies on LLM implications on users and technical talks using federated learning, privacy-preserving machine learning, differential privacy

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arxiv cs.CV @arxiv-cs-cv.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Alessio Xompero (Queen Mary University of London), Andrea Cavallaro (Idiap Research Institute, \'Ecole Polytechnique F\'ed\'erale de Lausanne) Learning Privacy from Visual Entities arxiv.org/abs/2503.12464

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arXiv cs.CV Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition @cscv-bot.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Alessio Xompero (Queen Mary University of London), Andrea Cavallaro (Idiap Research Institute, \'Ecole Polytechnique F\'ed\'erale de Lausanne): Learning Privacy from Visual Entities arxiv.org/abs/2503.12464 arxiv.org/pdf/2503.12464 arxiv.org/html/2503.12464

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Alessio Xompero @axompi.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

🚩How to predict whether an image is private or public 🖼️🔒? Check out our article in the Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PoPETs) 2025 @pet-symposium.bsky.social “Learning Privacy from Visual Entities” Alessio Xompero and Andrea Cavallaro Webpage: graphnex.github.io/privacy-from...

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arxiv cs.RO @arxiv-cs-ro.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Yik Lung Pang, Alessio Xompero, Changjae Oh, Andrea Cavallaro Stereo Hand-Object Reconstruction for Human-to-Robot Handover arxiv.org/abs/2412.07487

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