  This paper reports the activities and outcomes in the Workshop on Grasping
and Manipulation Datasets that was organized under the International Conference
on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2016. The half day workshop was packed with
nine invited talks, 12 interactive presentations, and one panel discussion with
ten panelists. This paper summarizes all the talks and presentations and recaps
what has been discussed in the panels session. This summary servers as a review
of recent developments in data collection in grasping and manipulation. Many of
the presentations describe ongoing efforts or explorations that could be
achieved and fully available in a year or two. The panel discussion not only
commented on the current approaches, but also indicates new directions and
focuses. The workshop clearly displayed the importance of quality datasets in
robotics and robotic grasping and manipulation field. Hopefully the workshop
could motivate larger efforts to create big datasets that are comparable with
big datasets in other communities such as computer vision.
