AV
Prof. Abhinav Valada
University of Freiburg
Talk title to be announced
EBiM
Benchmark
EBiM Benchmark Workshop
Invited talks, panel discussion, poster session, and competition awards
Workshop date & venue: TBD
Workshop Overview
This half-day workshop (date and venue to be announced) brings together the global mobile manipulation community to present results from the EBiM Competition, hear from leading researchers in real-world bimanual manipulation, and discuss the future of community-driven benchmarking. The workshop is the third phase of our coordinated benchmarking initiative — see the Competition page for benchmark details. Open to the global robotics community.
Tentative Schedule
Half-day morning program — exact date and venue to be announced
Opening
Invited Talk
Competition
Poster & Break
Panel
Awards
Networking
08:30
08:40
Opening Remarks
Organizers
08:40
09:05
Prof. Abhinav Valada
09:05
09:30
Prof. Roberto Martín-Martín
09:30
09:55
Prof. He Wang
09:55
10:30
Competition Highlights: Winner Teams
Task 1, Task 2, and Task 3 first-place teams present their approaches
10:30
11:00
Poster Session & Coffee Break
Interactive poster presentations and networking
11:00
11:25
Prof. Chuchu Fan
11:25
12:00
Host
To be announced
Panelists
- Stefan Schaal Intrinsic
- Sven Parusel Franka Robotics
- Shaowei Cui SCUT
12:10
12:30
Best Poster Award & Competition Award
Recognition of outstanding poster presentations and benchmark competition results
12:30
13:30
Hosted Lunch & Networking
Open to all workshop participants
Invited Talks
Four confirmed invited talks spanning mobile manipulation, benchmarking & reproducibility, dexterous and humanoid manipulation, and foundation-model policies.
RM
Prof. Roberto Martín-Martín
The University of Texas at Austin
Talk title to be announced
HW
Prof. He Wang
Peking University
Talk title to be announced
CF
Prof. Chuchu Fan
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Talk title to be announced
Panel: Benchmarking Standards for Embodied Robots
A 35-minute discussion on the future of community-driven benchmarks in real-world robotics.
Panel: Benchmarking Standards for Embodied Robots
11:25 – 12:00
Host
?
To be announced
Panelists
SS
Stefan Schaal
Intrinsic
SP
Sven Parusel
Franka Robotics
SC
Shaowei Cui
SCUT
Discussion Themes
- Can foundation models enable better generalization in real-world mobile manipulation?
- How should robustness and standardization be defined in embodied systems?
- Can cross-site benchmarking become long-term community infrastructure?
Poster Session & Call for Participation
We invite extended-abstract submissions for the workshop poster session — open to academic and industry researchers.
Extended Abstracts
- 2–4 page extended abstracts (workshop format)
- Novel tasks, metrics, or datasets
- Benchmark design and evaluation methodology
- Bimanual policy learning and transfer
- Teleoperation and data collection systems
Live Demonstrations
- Real-robot bimanual manipulation demos
- Benchmark task reproductions
- Simulation and digital-twin showcases
- Teleoperation and data collection pipelines
- Hardware prototypes and gripper designs
Participation
- Open attendance — registration details to be announced
- Poster presenters notified after review
- Interactive poster & demo session
- Networking with the bimanual robot community
- Best Poster Award announced at the workshop
Looking to compete on the benchmark itself? See the Competition page for Phase I (simulation) and Phase II (real-robot validation).
Important Dates
Key deadlines for poster submissions and workshop participation.
Poster / Paper Deadline
TBD
Notification of Acceptance
TBD
Camera-Ready Deadline
TBD
Workshop Date
TBD
Submit via CMT
Submission portal opening soon
Questions about submissions or participation?
Contact us →
Dissemination
How we share workshop outputs with the wider community after the event.
Long-Term Workshop Site
This website is maintained as a long-term repository for the EBiM initiative, beyond the workshop.
Speaker Slides
Presentation materials will be shared on this site following the workshop, where speakers permit.
Open Protocols & Datasets
Benchmark protocols, reproducibility checklists, and the multi-site demonstration dataset are released openly.
Perspective Article
A post-workshop perspective article exploring research directions in real-world embodied bimanual manipulation.
Looking for the Competition?
Phases I and II of the EBiM initiative — the open simulation benchmark and cross-continent real-robot validation that feed into this workshop.