Alexander Schröder
Google Cloud
Opening
EBiM
Benchmark
Open Day · Hamburg · Co-located with IJCAI-ECAI 2026
EBiM Open Day — Hamburg
A one-day, in-person look at what a globally coordinated robot benchmark looks like in practice: talks from invited speakers across industry and academia, a visit to the EBiM Evaluation Center, and lab tours at the University of Hamburg. You’ll see the Mobile FR3 Duo platform the benchmark actually runs on.
What this day is
The EBiM Benchmark is a globally coordinated benchmark for real-world embodied bimanual manipulation, with cross-continent real-robot validation at partner labs in Hamburg, Munich, Pittsburgh, and Shanghai. The Hamburg Open Day opens that work up to the wider community for a day — the tasks, the evaluation protocol, the hardware, and the people running it.
Researchers & students
Manipulation, robot learning, VLA and foundation models, HRI — anyone who cares whether benchmark numbers survive contact with a real robot.
IJCAI-ECAI 2026 attendees
Bremen to Hamburg is about an hour by train. A block of seats is reserved for IJCAI-ECAI attendees — register before you travel, since we cannot admit walk-ins.
Industry & partners
See the standardized platform and the evaluation setup that four testbeds are running in parallel.
This is not the EBiM Phase III workshop. The workshop — invited talks, panel, posters, and the awards ceremony — is a separate event; its date and venue are still to be announced.
Program
Monday, 17 August 2026 · 10:30–17:00 CEST · all times Central European Summer Time
Opening
Talk
Lunch
Transfer
Site Visit
Lab Visits
10:30
11:00
Opening
Alexander Schröder · Google Cloud
11:00
11:20
From Isaac Sim to Production Line: Autonomous Peeling and Pasting of Adhesive Sheets via AI
Prof. Min-Chun Hu · National Tsing Hua University
11:20
11:40
From Users to Tasks: A Practical Framework for Home Humanoid Robotics
Dr. Hao Shao · vivo Robotics Lab
11:40
12:00
Franka Robotics - Reference Platforms for Mobile Bimanual Manipulation
Sven Parusel · Franka Robotics
12:00
14:00
Lunch, hosted by Google
14:00
14:30
Transfer
14:30
15:00
EBiM Evaluation Center — site visit
15:00
15:30
Transfer
15:30
17:00
University of Hamburg lab visits
TAMS, WTM, and HCI, in small-group rotation
Program subject to update.
Speakers
Prof. Min-Chun Hu
National Tsing Hua University
From Isaac Sim to Production Line: Autonomous Peeling and Pasting of Adhesive Sheets via AI
Dr. Hao Shao
vivo Robotics Lab
From Users to Tasks: A Practical Framework for Home Humanoid Robotics
Sven Parusel
Franka Robotics
Franka Robotics - Reference Platforms for Mobile Bimanual Manipulation
Venue & getting there
Google Germany GmbH, ABC-Straße 19, 20354 Hamburg (ABC-Bogen) — top-floor event hall.
Photo ID is required at reception. The name you register with must match your ID.
Coming from IJCAI-ECAI 2026 in Bremen: Bremen Hbf to Hamburg Hbf is roughly one hour by ICE, then a short walk or U-Bahn ride to ABC-Straße. Book ahead for the best fares.
Afternoon transfers: details for the EBiM Evaluation Center and the University of Hamburg lab visits will be sent to registered guests by email.
Register
Free to attend. A block of seats is reserved for IJCAI-ECAI 2026 attendees. Registration is open until the program begins on Monday 17 August. The venue seats 80, so seats are limited. Register before you travel — we cannot admit walk-ins. Your seat is confirmed by email; a submitted form is not yet a seat.
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A co-location event of IJCAI-ECAI 2026
The EBiM Open Day — Hamburg is a co-location event of IJCAI-ECAI 2026 , the 35th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, held in Bremen, Germany, 15–21 August 2026.
The EBiM Benchmark holds Open Days at several of its testbed sites. See all Open Days, including Shanghai on 21 August 2026.
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