Whether it be a computer cable, a garden hose or a shoelace, we all have experienced how hard a is to untangle a tangle. Jiggle the wrong way, or too hard, or too soft and we make it worse. Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology have been experimenting with a robot to find the…
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