{"id":116707,"date":"2020-12-05T10:25:20","date_gmt":"2020-12-05T18:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/a-i-algorithms-are-making-robotic-hands-unimaginably-agile"},"modified":"2020-12-05T10:25:20","modified_gmt":"2020-12-05T18:25:20","slug":"a-i-algorithms-are-making-robotic-hands-unimaginably-agile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/a-i-algorithms-are-making-robotic-hands-unimaginably-agile","title":{"rendered":"A.I. Algorithms Are Making Robotic Hands Unimaginably Agile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-i-algorithms-are-making-robotic-hands-unimaginably-agile.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Remember when the idea of a robotic hand was a clunky mitt that could do little more than crush things in its iron grip? Well, such clich\u00e9s should be banished for good based on some impressive work coming out of the WMG department at the U.K.\u2019s University of Warwick.<\/p>\n<p>If the research lives up to its potential, robot hands could pretty soon be every bit as nimble as their flesh-and-blood counterparts. And it\u2019s all thanks to some impressive simulation-based training, new A.I. algorithms, and the Shadow Robot Dexterous Hand created by the U.K.-based <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shadowrobot.com\">Shadow Robot Company<\/a> (which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/cool-tech\/shadow-robot-company-hand\/\">Digital Trends has covered in detail before<\/a>.) <\/p>\n<p>Researchers at WMG Warwick have developed algorithms that can imbue the Dexterous Hand with impressive manipulation capabilities, enabling two robot hands to throw objects to one another or spin a pen around between their fingers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember when the idea of a robotic hand was a clunky mitt that could do little more than crush things in its iron grip? Well, such clich\u00e9s should be banished for good based on some impressive work coming out of the WMG department at the U.K.\u2019s University of Warwick. If the research lives up to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,41,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}