This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First Robotic Grasping and Manipulation
Challenge RGMC 2016 held at IROS 2016 Daejeon South Korea in October 2016.The 13 revised
full papers presented were carefully reviewed and are describing the rules results competitor
systems and future directions of the inaugural competition. The competition was designed to
allow researchers focused on the application of robot systems to compare the performance of
hand designs as well as autonomous grasping and manipulation solutions across a common set of
tasks. The competition was comprised of three tracks that included hand-in-hand grasping fully
autonomous grasping and simulation.
