Advances in robotics, perception, and artificial intelligence are driving the expectation of robots having high-level capabilities to autonomously, accurately, and robustly address various tasks. However, crucial robotic capabilities such as autonomous assembly and disassembly, cloth manipulation, in-hand manipulation, object picking in cluttered environments, or object hand-over are far from being solved. Many research activities have focused on these subject topics over the last decades, but solutions remained limited, and results are demonstrated on custom workflows and validation tests designed in individual laboratories considering distinct modalities and performance criteria. For this reason, benchmarking is important to enable reproducibility and comparison across different solutions and to advance the developments in challenging robotic manipulation problems. In addition, competitions have been an effective way to drive scientific progress in recent years, spurring the advances in robotics research. This workshop aims to stimulate discussions within the research community from both academia and industry on the current and future challenges of autonomous robotic grasping and manipulation for real-world applications where research innovation meets engineering solutions for developing efficient and elegant systems in relevant environments outside the laboratory with particular attention to benchmarking and competitions. To this end, we will engage with experts on the tasks and the winners of recent competitions. We will draw guidelines and directions for the reproducibility and comparison of future solutions and new challenges that arise from the discussion.

• 30 September 2024: Acceptance notification

• 4 October 2024: Best abstract notification

• 15 October 2024: Workshop (Room 10)

10:00 - 10:05               Q&A

12:00 - 12:10               Q&A

For further questions please send an email to salvatore.davella@santannapisa.it and yusun@usf.edu