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Why Robot Arms Still Can't Thread a Cable Through a Wall
In this episode, Lucas and Luna dig into a challenge that keeps automation engineers up at night: why robot arms still can't reliably thread a cable through a wall. It sounds simple, but it's a nightmare of flexible dynamics, limited sensing, and uncertainty. They break down a 2025 study from Carnegie Mellon's Robotic Manipulation Lab that put a dual-arm robot through forty trials—and it succeeded only eleven percent of the time. They explore what makes flexible objects so hard: infinite degrees of freedom, buckling, and the fact that the wall hides the cable's tip. They…
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