  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
MPI for Intelligent Systems 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.
