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DLO-Lab: Benchmarking Deformable Linear Object Manipulations with Differentiable Physics

arXiv:2606.04206v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We address the challenge of enabling robots to manipulate deformable linear objects (DLOs), such as ropes, cables, and rubber bands. Prior work has primarily focused on narrow, task-specific problems, often relying on real-world demonstrations or handcrafted heuristics. Such approaches, however, struggle to scale to the wide variety of materials and tasks encountered in practice, and collecting sufficiently diverse real-world data is often...