# Stretch Community News - June 2023

**URL:** <https://forum.hello-robot.com/t/stretch-community-news-june-2023/765>\
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**Created:** [July 7, 2023, 12:39am UTC](https://forum.hello-robot.com/t/stretch-community-news-june-2023/765 "2023-07-07T00:39:32Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 7, 2023, 12:39am UTC](https://forum.hello-robot.com/t/stretch-community-news-june-2023/765/1 "2023-07-07T00:39:32Z")

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Hello again and welcome to the Hello Robot monthly community update! If you’d like to see your work featured in a future newsletter or on the [Stretch Community Repo](https://github.com/hello-robot/stretch_community), drop us a line at [community@hello-robot.com](mailto:community@hello-robot.com).

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**Project-based learning** with Stretch is becoming more and more popular - last semester, students at five universities across the US used **Stretch in course projects exploring mobile manipulation** , from robot-assisted feeding to horticultural therapy. Click below to see videos and descriptions of some of their creative work! [Learn More](https://forum.hello-robot.com/t/spring-2023-stretch-course-projects/746)

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Hello Robot and Meta AI are thrilled to announce the **Open Vocabulary Mobile Manipulation Challenge** - part of Meta’s ongoing HomeRobot project. The challenge requires a robot to navigate novel environments and manipulate novel objects, and will be judged both in simulation and on a physical Stretch in conjunction with NeurIPS 2023. **The winner of the challenge will receive their own Stretch robot!** [Learn More](https://aihabitat.org/challenge/2023_homerobot_ovmm/)

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The HomeRobot OVMM project is intended as a benchmark enabling researchers to **develop and test embodied agents** on their ability to perform challenging tasks in real home environments. Researchers from GT, Meta AI, CMU, and Simon Fraser published this **open-source benchmark** , and their initial real-world results. [Learn More](https://ovmm.github.io/)

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Research at Northeastern and Carnegie Mellon gives Stretch the ability to easily and reliably **identify liquids** and granular media. The SLURP robot uses a custom gripper and **VNIR spectroscopy** to sense the composition of liquid inside an unknown container as well as the container itself. [Learn More](https://river-lab.github.io/slurp_grasping/)

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At CVPR 2023, CMU and Meta AI researchers presented the **Vision Robotics Bridge** - an approach to learn actionable representations by predicting contact points and post-contact trajectory as **learned from human videos**. [Learn More](https://robo-affordances.github.io/)

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**Want to see your work showcased in the next Community Newsletter? Share it with us at** [**community@hello-robot.com**](mailto:community@hello-robot.com) **!**