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

Are you working on a new affordance prediction model or you proposed a model in the past? Submit the details and help us make the benchmarking and advances in this task fairer and more reproducible. Try the free tool, browse the catalogue, and share any feedback: apicis.github.io/aff-sheet/

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

𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐌𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐥 𝐀𝐟𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 T. Apicella, A. Xompero, A. Cavallaro 2026 European Conference on Computer Vision #ECCV26 @eccv.bsky.social Workshop on Human-Centered Multimodal Intelligence in the Wild #HCMIW Poster presentation #ComputerVision #Conference #Research

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

* Reporting focused on generalisation to diverse objects and environments, robustness to occlusions, and scenarios where the agent interacts with humans Note: The tool is inspired and includes Model Cards.

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

⭐ Highlights ⭐ * An Open Science tool to systematically document task formulation, models, datasets, and validation protocols of affordance prediction models * Supporting a more informed design of learning-based robotic systems operating reliably in diverse real-world environments #OpenScience

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

📄 Co-authored with Tommaso Apicella and Andrea Cavallaro, our paper, 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐌𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐥 𝐀𝐟𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, introduces the 𝐀𝐟𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐒𝐡𝐞𝐞𝐭 to promote transparency and enable reproducible benchmarking and reliable evaluation of multimodal affordance prediction models.

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

Limitations in fair benchmarking & performance comparison: * same problem formulated differently * datasets annotated inconsistently * models cannot be tested on multiple benchmarks * missing details about training, testing, and deployment conditions in the experiments #ReproducibilityCrisis

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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 · 10/09/2026

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

The paper was presented as a poster during the workshop on Human-Centered Multimodal Intelligence in the Wild (HCMIW) at the 2026 European Conference on Computer Vision in Malmö, Sweden #ECCV26 #HCMIW

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

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

We look forward to receiving your submissions and welcoming you to join our workshop discussion on the future of robotic grasping, manipulation, reproducible benchmarking, and generalized humanoid intelligence. More info at sites.google.com/view/rgmcw2026

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RGMCW 2026

Advances in robotics, perception, and AI are raising expectations for robots to achieve high-level capabilities that enable them to autonomously, accurately, and robustly perform complex manipulation ...

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

Best abstract will also have the opportunity to give a talk in our programme. Accepted works will be posted on the workshop website and will be presented during the poster session of the workshop. The best abstract will also have the opportunity to give a talk.

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

Submit a title, abstract, and link to the journal article or conference paper for inclusion at our workshop via the CMT platform (select Abstract track): cmt3.research.microsoft.com/RGMCW2026 Submitted works will be checked for fitting to the workshop. Deadline: 10 Sep, 11.59 PM AoE

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

* Do you have any publication on robotic grasping and manipulation, benchmarking, reproducibility, or AI for robotics? * Is the paper accepted at #IROS2026? * Are you only attending IROS but have other relevant works? #Robotics #Grasping #Manipulation #Benchmarking #Reproducibility #AI #Humanoid

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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

🏆 Best Extended Abstract Award We’re also excited to announce that NOKOV Motion Capture is sponsoring a $300 cash prize for the Best 𝗘𝘅𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝗔𝗯𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁 Award! 🎉 Submission: cmt3.research.microsoft.com/RGMCW2026 More info: sites.google.com/view/rgmcw2026

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

📅 New important dates: 7 September: Submission deadline for 𝗘𝘅𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝗔𝗯𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘀 10 September: Submission deadline for 𝗔𝗯𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘀 of Published Works 14 September: Acceptance notification

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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 · 26/08/2026

We are planning 5 exciting competition tracks: 🔹 Picking in Clutter 🔹 Human-to-Robot Handover 🔹 Cloud Robotics 🔹 Mobile Manipulation 🔹 Simulation-Sorting We look forward to your involvement in the next edition of RGMC. Webpage: sites.google.com/view/rgmcomp #Robotics #AI #EmbodiedAI #PhysicalAI

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

Accepted extended abstracts will be posted on the workshop website and can be presented during the poster session of the workshop. The best extended abstract will have the chance to give a talk. Submissions via Microsoft CMT platform: cmt3.research.microsoft.com/RGMCW2026/

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

Do you have an ongoing and unpublished work related to robotic grasping, manipulation, benchmarking, reproducibility, or AI for robotics? Submit a 2-page extended abstract for peer-review. Important dates - 11.59pm AoE 25/8: Submission deadline 7/9: Decision notification 14/9: Camera-ready due

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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

We look forward to receiving your submissions and welcoming you to Pittsburgh for an engaging exchange of ideas on the future of robotic grasping, manipulation, reproducible benchmarking, and generalized humanoid intelligence. More details: sites.google.com/view/rgmcw2026

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

If you're working on robotic grasping, manipulation, benchmarking, reproducibility, or AI for robotics, we encourage you to submit your latest research and join the discussion. Submissions via Microsoft CMT platform: cmt3.research.microsoft.com/RGMCW2026/

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

Topics of interest * Grasping * Manipulation * Datasets related to robotic manipulation & grasping * Learning grasping & manipulation from datasets * Human-to-robot handovers * Performance metrics & benchmarks * Competitions for pick-and-place in logistics, daily living manipulation, manufacturing

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

Track 2: Abstracts Title, abstract, and publication link of peer-reviewed, published works (check for fit via platform) Important dates - 11.59pm AoE 10/9: Submission deadline 14/9: Acceptance notification Accepted abstracts presented as posters Best abstract invited for a talk

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

Track 1: Extended Abstracts 2-pages of ongoing/unpublished works (peer-review) Important dates - 11.59pm AoE 25/8: Submission deadline 7/9: Decision notification 14/9: Camera-ready due Accepted abstracts posted on the website & presented as posters Best extended abstract invited for a talk

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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

What matters? Demonstrated real-world robustness, reproducibility, and generalization. Submit via the journal's Snapp system and select our Topical Collection: link.springer.com/collections/... Know someone working on these challenges? Share this with your teams, collaborators, and colleagues.

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Advancing Robotic Grasping and Manipulation for the Real-World

This Topical Collection aims to showcase cutting-edge research advancing autonomous robotic grasping and manipulation within unstructured, real-world ...

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

... - Real-world validation in industry, warehousing, and service robotics - Foundation models for manipulation Whether you're developing cutting-edge algorithms, testing in unstructured environments, or scaling solutions in industry and logistics, this is an opportunity to share your research

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

What we're looking for? - Robust grasping & manipulation in real-world settings - Learning-based perception & control approaches - Flexible and adaptive hardware innovations - Simulation-to-reality transfer & benchmarking - Lifelong and continual learning methods - Human-robot object handovers

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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

Slides link: www.slideshare.net/slideshow/11...

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

8 teams, 24 live configurations, real gripper & sensor diversity. See what worked, what didn't, and the results and insights of this year's competition. #AI #ObjectHandover #Benchmarking #Robotics #Grasping #Manipulation #Competition #CORSMAL #RGMC #ICRA2026

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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

To all the teams for the months of effort, it was rewarding to watch you in action in Vienna. I’m already excited to see what teams will bring to #ICRA 2027 in South Korea 🤖

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

𝘖𝘶𝘳 𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘰𝘳𝘴 for providing robots and mounts, prize funding and competition support, NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano™ Developer Kits for the winners, and objects used during the competition

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

𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐤 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 for helping organise and coordinate the track 𝘙𝘎𝘔𝘊 𝘖𝘳𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘻𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘦: a pleasure to collaborate and make RGMC a success again 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘪𝘳𝘴 for their work behind the scenes to support all competitions at #ICRA2026

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

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐬 🥇 Youth2Real (China) 🥈 Robot Booster (China) 🥉 LARICS Gripsters (Croatia) 3rd place was contested by BrokenArm (Austria) and 3D Vision & Robotics Lab (South Korea). Special recognition to the returning teams, AIRLab (South Korea) and SIRSIIT (Italy), for their continued commitment.

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

For the on-site competition, they performed 24 handover configurations under real-world conditions: - variable lighting & backgrounds - human occlusion We provided 6 unknown containers with varying physical properties (rigid to deformable, opaque to transparent) and 3 contents to vary masses.

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

8 teams qualified and competed live in Vienna on June 4th. Teams brought their own robots or used hardware our sponsors provided, showcasing diverse gripper and touch sensor designs.

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

12 teams (from China, South Korea, Croatia, Austria, Italy, Czech Republic, India, Singapore) designed their robotic control and perception solutions from scratch. Teams competed in a remote qualification phase and executed 288 handover configurations (from the 2019 CORSMAL benchmarking protocol).

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