Real Robot Challenge: A Robotics Competition in the Cloud

Stefan Bauer, Manuel Wüthrich, Felix Widmaier, Annika Buchholz, Sebastian Stark, Anirudh Goyal, Thomas Steinbrenner, Joel Akpo, Shruti Joshi, Vincent Berenz, Vaibhav Agrawal, Niklas Funk, Julen Urain De Jesus, Jan Peters, Joe Watson, Claire Chen, Krishnan Srinivasan, Junwu Zhang, Jeffrey Zhang, Matthew Walter, Rishabh Madan, Takuma Yoneda, Denis Yarats, Arthur Allshire, Ethan Gordon, Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee, Siddhartha Srinivasa, Animesh Garg, Takahiro Maeda, Harshit Sikchi, Jilong Wang, Qingfeng Yao, Shuyu Yang, Robert McCarthy, Francisco Sanchez, Qiang Wang, David Bulens, Kevin McGuinness, Noel O’Connor, Redmond Stephen, Bernhard Schölkopf
Proceedings of the NeurIPS 2021 Competitions and Demonstrations Track, PMLR 176:190-204, 2022.

Abstract

Dexterous manipulation remains an open problem in robotics. To coordinate efforts of the research community towards tackling this problem, we propose a shared benchmark. We designed and built robotic platforms that are hosted at the MPI-IS and can be accessed remotely. Each platform consists of three robotic fingers that are capable of dexterous object manipulation. Users are able to control the platforms remotely by submitting code that is executed automatically, akin to a computational cluster. Using this setup, i) we host robotics competitions, where teams from anywhere in the world access our platforms to tackle challenging tasks ii) we publish the datasets collected during these competitions (consisting of hundreds of robot hours), and iii) we give researchers access to these platforms for their own projects.

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BibTeX
@InProceedings{pmlr-v176-bauer22a, title = {Real Robot Challenge: A Robotics Competition in the Cloud}, author = {Bauer, Stefan and W{\"u}thrich, Manuel and Widmaier, Felix and Buchholz, Annika and Stark, Sebastian and Goyal, Anirudh and Steinbrenner, Thomas and Akpo, Joel and Joshi, Shruti and Berenz, Vincent and Agrawal, Vaibhav and Funk, Niklas and Urain De Jesus, Julen and Peters, Jan and Watson, Joe and Chen, Claire and Srinivasan, Krishnan and Zhang, Junwu and Zhang, Jeffrey and Walter, Matthew and Madan, Rishabh and Yoneda, Takuma and Yarats, Denis and Allshire, Arthur and Gordon, Ethan and Bhattacharjee, Tapomayukh and Srinivasa, Siddhartha and Garg, Animesh and Maeda, Takahiro and Sikchi, Harshit and Wang, Jilong and Yao, Qingfeng and Yang, Shuyu and McCarthy, Robert and Sanchez, Francisco and Wang, Qiang and Bulens, David and McGuinness, Kevin and O'Connor, Noel and Stephen, Redmond and Sch{\"o}lkopf, Bernhard}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the NeurIPS 2021 Competitions and Demonstrations Track}, pages = {190--204}, year = {2022}, editor = {Kiela, Douwe and Ciccone, Marco and Caputo, Barbara}, volume = {176}, series = {Proceedings of Machine Learning Research}, month = {06--14 Dec}, publisher = {PMLR}, pdf = {https://proceedings.mlr.press/v176/bauer22a/bauer22a.pdf}, url = {https://proceedings.mlr.press/v176/bauer22a.html}, abstract = {Dexterous manipulation remains an open problem in robotics. To coordinate efforts of the research community towards tackling this problem, we propose a shared benchmark. We designed and built robotic platforms that are hosted at the MPI-IS and can be accessed remotely. Each platform consists of three robotic fingers that are capable of dexterous object manipulation. Users are able to control the platforms remotely by submitting code that is executed automatically, akin to a computational cluster. Using this setup, i) we host robotics competitions, where teams from anywhere in the world access our platforms to tackle challenging tasks ii) we publish the datasets collected during these competitions (consisting of hundreds of robot hours), and iii) we give researchers access to these platforms for their own projects.} }
Endnote
%0 Conference Paper %T Real Robot Challenge: A Robotics Competition in the Cloud %A Stefan Bauer %A Manuel Wüthrich %A Felix Widmaier %A Annika Buchholz %A Sebastian Stark %A Anirudh Goyal %A Thomas Steinbrenner %A Joel Akpo %A Shruti Joshi %A Vincent Berenz %A Vaibhav Agrawal %A Niklas Funk %A Julen Urain De Jesus %A Jan Peters %A Joe Watson %A Claire Chen %A Krishnan Srinivasan %A Junwu Zhang %A Jeffrey Zhang %A Matthew Walter %A Rishabh Madan %A Takuma Yoneda %A Denis Yarats %A Arthur Allshire %A Ethan Gordon %A Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee %A Siddhartha Srinivasa %A Animesh Garg %A Takahiro Maeda %A Harshit Sikchi %A Jilong Wang %A Qingfeng Yao %A Shuyu Yang %A Robert McCarthy %A Francisco Sanchez %A Qiang Wang %A David Bulens %A Kevin McGuinness %A Noel O’Connor %A Redmond Stephen %A Bernhard Schölkopf %B Proceedings of the NeurIPS 2021 Competitions and Demonstrations Track %C Proceedings of Machine Learning Research %D 2022 %E Douwe Kiela %E Marco Ciccone %E Barbara Caputo %F pmlr-v176-bauer22a %I PMLR %P 190--204 %U https://proceedings.mlr.press/v176/bauer22a.html %V 176 %X Dexterous manipulation remains an open problem in robotics. To coordinate efforts of the research community towards tackling this problem, we propose a shared benchmark. We designed and built robotic platforms that are hosted at the MPI-IS and can be accessed remotely. Each platform consists of three robotic fingers that are capable of dexterous object manipulation. Users are able to control the platforms remotely by submitting code that is executed automatically, akin to a computational cluster. Using this setup, i) we host robotics competitions, where teams from anywhere in the world access our platforms to tackle challenging tasks ii) we publish the datasets collected during these competitions (consisting of hundreds of robot hours), and iii) we give researchers access to these platforms for their own projects.
APA
Bauer, S., Wüthrich, M., Widmaier, F., Buchholz, A., Stark, S., Goyal, A., Steinbrenner, T., Akpo, J., Joshi, S., Berenz, V., Agrawal, V., Funk, N., Urain De Jesus, J., Peters, J., Watson, J., Chen, C., Srinivasan, K., Zhang, J., Zhang, J., Walter, M., Madan, R., Yoneda, T., Yarats, D., Allshire, A., Gordon, E., Bhattacharjee, T., Srinivasa, S., Garg, A., Maeda, T., Sikchi, H., Wang, J., Yao, Q., Yang, S., McCarthy, R., Sanchez, F., Wang, Q., Bulens, D., McGuinness, K., O’Connor, N., Stephen, R. & Schölkopf, B.. (2022). Real Robot Challenge: A Robotics Competition in the Cloud. Proceedings of the NeurIPS 2021 Competitions and Demonstrations Track, in Proceedings of Machine Learning Research 176:190-204 Available from https://proceedings.mlr.press/v176/bauer22a.html.

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