Research system

Wiggle and Go

Wiggle and Go is a research method for robot rope manipulation. A camera observes a short wiggle, a model estimates the rope's physical properties, and a planner uses those estimates to choose a goal-directed movement.

Description source: wiggleandgo.github.io

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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