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Carnegie Mellon University

Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute studies robot perception, learning and manipulation. Its Wiggle and Go research uses a brief exploratory movement to help a robot predict how a rope will behave.

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Video still of the physical Wiggle and Go rope-handling experiment

29 October 2026

A robot wiggles a rope before moving it

Carnegie Mellon uses a brief motion to estimate how a flexible object will behave.

Carnegie Mellon University