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WireCraft Released: A Simulation Benchmark for Industrial DLO Manipulation

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The research team led by Chongyu Zhu has released WireCraft, a simulation benchmark covering three categories of industrial deformable linear object (DLO) manipulation tasks—connector insertion, snap routing, and cable-duct pressing—supporting both articulated and deformable physical models, with accompanying trajectories sourced from both simulation and a real UR5 robotic arm; the paper was accepted as a Spotlight at CoRL 2026. Evaluations show that reinforcement learning based on privileged state achieves success rates above 82% on representative settings for each task category; on the real UR5, supplementing real demonstrations with simulation data improves success rates by 15–65 percentage points under the best-performing hybrid configuration for each task.