Wiggle and Go: robot learns rope dynamics from a single interaction at CoRL 2026
Arthur_K_J · x · 2026-09-20
A CoRL 2026 paper, Wiggle and Go, teaches robots to adapt to ambiguous dynamics the way humans learn: by interacting with the world. The robot wiggles a rope once, figures out how it behaves, then executes complex dynamic tasks using the estimated dynamics — with no real-world training data and no retries.
The authors present it as evidence that specialized world models still have a place, responding to Vincent Sitzmann's ECCV claim that only a video model could identify his cable's properties; they concede a VWM would be an exciting next test for Wiggle-based system identification.
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